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There is no time in my life where the phrase, “in acceptance there is peace” has more truth and depth. Recently I have been walking through some past traumas and for some reason am surprised to find relief and freedom in the voicing and acknowledging of the fact. In John 16, Jesus is laying outContinue reading “In Acceptance there is Peace”

During our years in Mozambique, we lost six dogs to death. Old age, poison, tick bite fever, etc. We had to give six dogs away, because we went on furlough twice and were away for a year each time. We lost lots of cats, some because the neighbors next to our first house were apparentlyContinue reading “The Miracle of the Pets”

Not too long ago we were traveling and came about 6 hours from someplace I lived for awhile when I was younger. Those of you who know me know that I have been a tumbling tumbleweed for much of my life and there is only one place left from my childhood where people I knowContinue reading “A Catch in the Throat”

Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote,   “Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results oppositeContinue reading “On Failures and Results”

If you’re coming over here because you clicked from our newsletter, welcome to our blog. If you’d like to be on our newsletter list, please email us. Fair warning, we’re pretty bad about updating our blog, but it isn’t from lack of desire to inform. More, it comes from a doubt that we have anythingContinue reading “Welcome to our World”

At this time of the year, I always feel like I ought to come up with some special spiritual message which has not occurred to any of the billions of people who have celebrated Christmas over the last hundreds of years. Right. Expectations are a bit too high. Instead, this year we find ourselves justContinue reading “December in Connecticut”

It’s Graduation Day atRift Valley Academy! Of course, none of the kids are there—the hall that should be filled with grinning graduates and weepy parents is empty today.  Instead, we sit in our living rooms all over the world (literally) and watch with tears and some disappointment.  Not in who the kids are, but in whatContinue reading “Graduation”

Ok, what? Kittens? Yup. Back at the beginning of lockdown, I looked in the face of my older teenager who had just had all his dear friends, and senior trips, ripped away from him, and my younger teen who was quietly fearful about the growing covid-19 threat, and felt my own pounding heart as weContinue reading “God Gave Kittens”

For the last few months we have been concerned and praying for you all as you weather the effects and trauma of Covid-19, but now our hearts weep for the situation in America. To watch the anger, pain and injustice is simply horrible. Please know as we deal with our own crisis, yours are notContinue reading “Shine”

The first two weeks of March, we were all distracted and distressed.  But then I found myself relaxed, busy with daily tasks and checking in on our people, able to focus on things that needed doing and sleeping well at night.  What happened? It struck me a week or so ago, and I had toContinue reading “Crisis Mode – Again”