…think about such things. Philippians 4:8
“Don’t worry, Salem, you won’t have any shots at this appointment,” I said confidently, as I told him about his upcoming appointment with the endocrinologist to check on his growth. Salem, my 7-year-old son with a chromosomal deletion and autism, has extreme anxiety over doctor appointments. The unknown of exactly what they’re going to do, …
I came home feeling empty. The kids and I had just been at a birthday party and I was glad to be home. The party was full of lovely people and fun activities to participate in, but because of Salem’s differences I had spent most of the party in a separate room with him, away from the …
Can you imagine being a slave? Being considered by law the property of another human who determined everything about your work and living situation 24 hours a day must have been indescribably difficult for the enslaved African Americans for hundreds of years before the Civil War. Slave masters chose whether or not your family would …
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Our move to Kansas did not go quite how I’d expected. We’ve been living here for over two months now and there have been many surprises along the way. The original plan included getting here, closing on our house right away, staying with some friends while we worked on our house to get it ready, …
In the book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell shares something fascinating not because it isn’t obvious but because it’s truer than we might have realized. How much and the manner in which you practice directly correlate to your level of achievement. The book starts with the example of elite hockey players in Canada. The vast majority are …
What a wonderful first couple of weeks my family has enjoyed in Kansas! Many thanks to everyone who has warmly welcomed my family and I. You have made this transition easier on us. To be honest, leaving so much family, so many friends and the wonderful Azure Hills church in sunny, mountainous southern California was …
One of the first Bible stories I ever remember hearing was read by my father out of a Precious Moments Bible. It was about the Apostle Paul and how he was shipwrecked off the island of Malta and how everyone on board miraculously made it to shore where Paul was soon bitten by a snake …
“I’m sorry, I can’t hear you right now!,” I said, yelling into the phone, “A fire truck just pulled up next to us and the siren is on!!” It was the first week of December and we had landed in an airport less than an hour before to look for housing in Kansas where we …
After six hours of waiting in lines, getting my blood and urine tested, and getting an ultrasound done, I was finally sitting on the crinkly white paper of the examination table in urgent care about to hear my results. Soon the doctor whisked into the room with a cardiogram paper of the baby’s heartbeat in …
*If you missed Part 1 of this story, you can read it here. After three life-changing years in Philadelphia, we were sent off to Michigan for Nick to attend Andrews University Theological Seminary in the summer of 2014. We would be there for two and a half years. There were now four people in our …
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