Our family had our first “wilderness” adventure together this summer. With all of our necessities on our backs, we packed in to a primitive campsite on the Superior Hiking Trail and spent the night away from all modern conveniences. And we all came out alive. The boys filtered water from the Split Rock River, gathered firewood off the trail and set up their own tent. They inhaled their mountain meal like it was the most delicious food they had tasted in their lives, and Owen said he liked river water better than regular water. Aside from one child falling in…
I am happy to know that I’m not the only person in my family who expresses my frustrations in writing. Sometimes you just have to let the paper know how you feel.
We own Love You Forever. It’s stuck in the bookcase somewhere between Oh The Thinks You Can Think and Animal Alphabet. We read it every now and then, but it always makes me feel a little funny. It’s starts out lovely but gets increasingly more bizarro with the flip of each page. I would be concerned about my mother-in-law’s mental health if she drove to our place at night with a ladder strapped to her car and then climbed up the side of the house to enter through a second-story window. Wouldn’t you? That’s freaky enough, but if she then proceeded to…
Excited to get recognition in the Today’s Christian Woman Fall print issue for taking part in the Women of the World compilation. If you haven’t had a chance to read my article about Esther and her Dorcas Ministry Shop through Mission to Haiti take a look. It’s one of the features on the TCW homepage this week.
I was blessed blessed blessed to be to contracted to write Esther’s story (the woman on the left) for Today’s Christian Woman – Women of the World segment. I love looking back over time and seeing how God orchestrated our trip to Haiti in April and along with it the opportunity to spend a week with Esther whom I now consider a role model and friend. Her story is a fantastic journey of following God’s lead, and if you read it, I’m sure you will find her as inspiring as I do. I find all of the staff of Mission to…