I grew up around words like grace and hospitality and sanctification and justification and love. If you asked me about them, I could rattle off a dictionary definition and quote a Bible verse or two. I learned them long before I actually understood them, long before they shaped the way I saw God and myself …
“Wait what?” I stared dead face at my pastor, having no idea what he just said, in the middle of my vows. IN THE MIDDLE OF MY VOWS! AT MY WEDDING! It was probably the most humid day I have ever experienced — like so humid my knees were sweating and all I could think …
Ana is currently back in Wolaita Soddo, Ethiopia, for the summer. She is living and interning at Soddo Christian Hospital, which is run through the collaboration of missionaries and Ethiopian doctors. The reflections below are from her second update email! “They are saying they welcome you as their own, because you are their sister in …
We were moving my sister into her dorm room for her first year of college after moving me into my first ever apartment, when my parents got the call that my Papa was in the hospital after a fall. It was the first of many calls over the next few months as his health steadily …
By coincidence (read: providence) I landed on Ephesians 4 and Psalm 4 this morning, as part of a plan to go through one chapter of Ephesians and one Psalm a day. As often happens when I read Pauline epistles, I got overwhelmed by the sheer density of the passage of Ephesians and found myself reading …
