Missions & Calling

Monday afternoon, I got a call from a friend asking if Jake and I wanted to take a few days to travel to other parts of Guatemala, Honduras and possibly Belize. The only catch was we could only pack a backpack each and our transportation and room and board would be kept to minimal expenses.

Soft spoken unless he is preaching the Word of God. Soft tempered unless his family or his God are being threatened. Always kind! Always sweet! He came home after a long (and surely hot) day. A dozen pink roses in tow for his bride of 27 years. It wasn’t their anniversary or some special occasion;

It is amazing how quickly bonds can be formed in such a short amount of time when the same Heavenly Father is shared. Jake and I spent the past week with a group from Alabama. The majority of the team was a youth group from Thomasville Baptist Church in Thomasville. I was 1 of several

Blessed is the onewho does not walk in step with the wickedor stand in the way that sinners takeor sit in the company of mockers,2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,and who meditates on his law day and night.3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,which yields

Time flies.No time like the present.Time will tell.Time heals all wounds. Twenty years. So much has happened in 20 years. I graduated from high school. I ran away from Boston to Florida. I’ve been married, divorced, and became the mother of 3 children (although 2, Preston and Gloria, are in Heaven with you). Several failed

Teaching English wasn’t the only thing on my agenda for this trip. I also wanted to minister to the kids I was teaching, but for the past month, I hadn’t really had the chance. I now see, that I may have not been seeing the opportunities placed before me… Today, I had 4th, 8th, 5th

As I mentioned yesterday, the lessons that have been learned these past 4 weeks have not been anything that I expected. I found myself last night feeling lost and really wishing we were back home. Writing in my journal has always been an outlet of mine. I confessed my disillusionment to the Lord and asked

I have no idea what to write. I keep wanting to be inspirational and deep, but I got nothing… This week has been uneventful. Tuesday afternoon, what I thought was an allergic reaction to playing with kittens, turned into a cold that kept me home from school on Wednesday. I made it to school yesterday.

I have never thought myself as “holier than thou” nor a legalistic in any way. On the contrary, I consider myself to be in a tight competition as the “worst of all sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). I am also quite the contemporary when it comes to worship (dancing, clapping, hands raised, amens, you name it).

I am so thirsty for the things that are of You, Lord!! I woke up this morning and You were not the first thing on my mind. Why is it that I so desperately want to be a woman who longs and yearns for You, day and night, yet my flesh wants otherwise?? O God,