Surviving the Chaos

All I know is I'm not home yet This is not where I belong Take this world and give me Jesus This is not where I belong

I've discovered that a lot of things that are important to me are never written because I don't want to get them wrong. At the ris...

 I don't even know how to say what needs to be said. I'm pretty sure "So, I have this friend..." doesn't do it justi...

This morning I caught myself counting heads and coming up short. Very aggravated, until I figured out what was happening. Yesterday in th...

I don't know the group, but I like the message! Off to check out www.rightnow.org

The Kids of Kechene Slideshow : Jamie’s trip from Hillsboro , Kansas , United States to Addis Ababa , Ethiopia was created by TripAdvisor...

I am admittedly a little horrified to blog about this today after my delightful post last night , however, at the risk of being a hypocrite ...

Nothing prepares you for Ethiopia. Nothing. Ethiopia is so much better than you would expect. And infinitely worse. Nothing prepares...

I came home from Ethiopia thinking we should never spend another dime on anything reomtely unnecessary ever again. And then immediately we...

Last night a had a very strange dream. In this dream, I had left my husband (not Brent) to give this other guy (not Brent) a try. Yes, I...

And if my pictures DON'T tell a thousand words, meet our new (and now finally legal!) daughter, Iris. Not her legal name, but her blog...

I give you...the child who "washed and guarded" our car while we were hiking up to see a rock church. He is in the red sweater. ...

I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us ...

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You know those pinpricks you get all over your arm when the numbness of sleeping on it in a really hard nap starts to wear off? You know how...

The United States Customs questions could use some help, in my humblest of opinions. And the following is the reason. Q1: Are you bringin...