Travel day
Today I traveled to Michigan for one last visit before we leave the country. My mom blessed me with the plane ticket and we had enough "miles" to upgrade my flight from Phoenix to Detroit to First Class (we've actually had these miles for quite sometime and I figured...
Quote from the book of Mark…
You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here.
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Doreen Kawirr (Child No. MC123) Doreen’s mother is living but gave permission for the church to bring her to Mercy Child Foundation in Koma, Kenya. Her father has died and her mother has never visited. She was born in 1996 in Mernothe, Kenya. She has five brothers...
From beginning to beginning…Part VII
(Read Part VI) Chuck explained the situation to the kids but I really don't remember what he said. I do, however, remember him giving them encouragement and reassuring them we were doing everything we needed to with the doctors. Trying to make sure they understood I...
Wednesday’s song…
This Jesus Must Die from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. As we approach Easter let's remember it was each of us singing this song that day...but God forgives us our sins. "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart...
It is not the situation…it is how we react.
I was chatting with a friend yesterday and we were discussing how most of the time it is not the particular events of a situation that escalate it, but rather how we respond to the situation itself. I told him about some of the times I have reacted badly to a...
From beginning to beginning…Part VI
(Read Part V) God continued working on getting me to depend on Him totally instead of Chuck, but most of that realization would be done after surgery and in retrospective thinking and prayer. Right now He was working on my attitude and giving me peace in knowing...
Quote from Vincent van Gogh…
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Blot out the sun
If their arrows blot out the sun...then we will fight in the shade. (from the movie 300) I've felt some arrows lately - arrows of anxiety, feelings of being overwhelmed, frustration just to name a few. Each time one of these arrows comes at me I have to remember...
Friday’s Child: A Chance to Support an Impoverished Child in Kenya
Philip Munyasya Kioko (Child No. 110) Philip attends Nice View Academy in Tala, Kenya. He lives with his mom, Maria, and father, Simon who were affected by the political upheaval. They worked in Kisumu, Kenya and want to start over in Tala. Philip was born in Kisumu...