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Rummaging through our box of paperwork, I find it and it hits me unexpected.Her birth certificate, the one her birth mom stuffed in her bag as she sent her off to a “better life” at her uncle’s when...
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It is after midnight and I lay her in yet another new bed in another new place. Strangers-turned-friends have opened their home up to us, the wanderers, during this quick trip throughout the United...
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The last few weeks have been so full of God’s blessings and extravagant surprises. Every day another gift, beautiful and unexpected. I feel spoiled rotten by the God of the universe, His love just too...
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Merry Christmas!Praising our Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace!incredible photos by Mandie Joy
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“I just want to remember,” she says matter-of-factly, and she pulls the covers right back up over her head.It is well after our 8 o’clock bed time. I have been sunk deep in the couch and in the Word...
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I really am going to start publicly sharing His 2011 miracles soon (you know, one day, when there is a calm season... ;) ) In the mean time, I am blessed to be guest posting here today..One of my very...
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over here again. humbled.Can you imagine the stench?Joseph has walked and Mary ridden 90 miles in the scorching sun, the wind whipping around their faces and caking them with dust from the dirt road....
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November“You are right.” He says.I look up into the shy smile I have grown to love so much. Day 178 of bandaging this wound, and it is almost gone.Makerere is not one to strike up conversation usually,...
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Tonight marked one year since the day Makerere stumbled into my yard with his leg charred to the bone. To remember ho far God has carried us, we had a little celebration. We celebrated healed legs and...
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April 2011Sometimes my 16 passenger van and I clamor down the driveway and I think that I will get out and life will be easy. That 14 daughters will greet me laughingly at the gate and there will the...
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I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise will continually be in my mouth.My soul makes its boast in the Lord;let the humble hear and be glad!Oh, magnify the Lord with me,and let us exalt His name...
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The scene played out as it has so many times before – a late night phone call and I jump into the van and race toward that little slum and the people that my heart so loves. People step out of the...
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It is a bit overwhelming to realize that you have bled your whole heart – the ugly sin, the raw emotion, the unbridled truth – out on paper for the whole world to read.It is a bit exhausting to hear...
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Nearly four years ago she bounced into my life in a dress with a bright red sash. She tentatively called me Mommy after having not known one for nearly her entire five years of life and all signs of...
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Our van pulls into the bumpy dirt space next to her bumpy dirt house and there she stands, her smile like sunshine. It is hot and we are late but her joy reminds me of where I find my Joy. My two...
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She clings tightly to the edge of the pool, knuckles while with fear of the unknown. My eyes grow hot but I fight it, surely you can’t cry on the side of the public baby pool in the middle of a perfect...
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My kitchen is painted yellow.Because yellow is the color of sunshine and of joy and because yellow is my favorite.It’s never quite as clean as I want it to be in here.Tonight as I stand in the...
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It is my privilege to be able to introduce to you some of our phenomenal staff. These people have taught me so much and I am continually blown away by their wisdom and their joy in serving. I am so...
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I watch the tears roll down her cheeks and am devastated for her. I know she must be crying because of the pain of her burns or because of the pain in her heart at the thought of her husband pushing...
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