I needed something to help my prayer life go to the next level. I had all sorts of plans and scenarios to make this happen, but God provided a better solution.
I’m teaching driving again.
Long time readers may remember that I taught driver’s ed at RVA in 1999, and that I got closer to Jesus that I ever thought I could. This time seems even MORE tailor-made for me.
Them: What should I do?
Me: To start with, don’t hit that bus.
Them: What...
When your father is the college guidance counselor, you hear lots and lots about different universities. It can make an impact, even if you are only four years old. During a bubble bath, Ben and Kate told me:
Ben: I’m going to Harvard.
Me: Why Harvard?
Ben: I already know how to spell it.
Katie: I’m going to Harvard too.
Me: Why Harvard?
Katie: I already have the shirt.
I marvel at their clarity, and can’t WAIT to read their application essays.
This has been a hard year...
Katie: Getting your hair braided is tough
But the results are worth it
Ben likes going for motorcycle rides with Biggest Brother
And he shows how much he likes it when he gets home
Matthew collected toys for the kids in the hospital this year and enjoys giving them away
JT recovered from his appendix surgery and has worked hard on his photography
We are buying hundreds of tons of maize and beans in anticipation of the beginning of school in January, and our second computer...
Continue ReadingI wish I had good news to share, but I don’t—yet. Theresa and Michael, along with the rest of us here, know that God is in control. God is faithful. But Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds us, “’For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’”
In God’s plan that is greater than...
I need to begin by sharing an article from this Sunday’s newspaper.
This is a story that might not be found in an American newspaper.
There is an election going on for the new constitution in Kenya. Whenever I am in town, I ask my Kenyan friends what they think. They all have an opinion, and they are all rather passionate about it. The bottom line is that there is a lot at stake, and a lot of emotions behind everything.
The election...
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I have lost over thirty five pounds since I have returned to Kenya. The bad news is that I am still fatter than anytime in my life, except 35 pounds ago.
Many have asked the secret to my dynamic weight loss. I answer that it is a combination of sheer unrelenting discipline, magnificent will power, and various other celebrations of me. I am planning to write a diet book...
We are back in Kenya. This is our third time to arrive as a family and by far the most difficult. And I don’t know why. We knew what to expect this time, we had been looking this way the whole of the last year, but we spent the first several days here in a funk.
Thank you to all who were praying, because we needed it! Maybe we let ourselves get too spoiled by our year in America: the kindness...
There are always adjustments when you return to a country. One of the first is health issues; you meet up with a whole new set of germs, and it can take time for your body to get used to them. Ben has had a bad cough for a week and diarrhea for almost as long. He has been amazingly patient through it all, getting up six or seven times a night, walking into the bathroom, unzipping his feetie pajamas (it’s...
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