We haven’t even moved back to the States yet and it’s already happened. I told God he wasn’t allowed to move me back to the U.S. until I was ready to do so without falling back into my old ways. So when he gave us the green light to relocate back to our passport country […]
Comfortable to Complain
We were in a long security line at the airport. We had finally gotten to the point where I started taking off my shoes and belt, when another employee called us over. “There’s an empty line over here,” she motioned. So we followed her. But the “empty” line wasn’t so empty. To top it off, we’d ended […]
Beauty or Broken?
The view out my current kitchen window is that of a beautifully lush garden… surrounded by a concrete wall with razor wire. I find myself vacillating between those two contrasts. Some days I marvel at the greenery growing there — and the exotic birds who come to visit — even though half the year there is no […]
Our Three Gift Christmas Tradition
Each year around this time, a friend or family member asks me to tell her again about our three-gifts-per-child tradition at Christmas. Usually it happens when someone’s kids are old enough to be infected by a nasty case of the gimmies (gimme, gimme, give me more!), which means it’s as good a time as any […]