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Sometimes life is hard… it just is.  Sometimes it is shocking, sometimes discomfiting, sometimes scary, and sometimes even what those of us prone to dramatics in our speech would call fraught with distress.  Thank goodness that sometimes it is also…

Here’s a little information about me 🙂 I am a 33 year old single missionary from the beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. I was raised in a Christian home and taught all of the Sunday school Bible stories from a young…

I love fiction.  I love fiction so much so, that there are times when I could easily whittle away hours talking about my favorite characters, and parts, of various books and movies (as I am sure my family and friends…

A few days ago, I returned from visiting Italy for the first time.   It was a wonderful, eye-opening trip.  I have been to many different nations, yet never have I looked at one with the mindset of longevity, and it…

Recently, I have been doing a lot of reminiscing.  Over half of my squad met in Georgia a few weeks ago for the wedding of two of our own, Justin and Ada, who are both very dear to all of…

My mother and I have very different points of view.  As with most people, differences of opinion range all over the place, but we seem most consistently at odds in regards to driving.  She loves to take the back roads,…

Hi everyone! I am mostly writing today to ask you to pray for me and my family.  Tomorrow morning, I, my brother and his wife, and my father are all heading to KS to visit my uncle Jim (Papa’s brother)…

As many of you know, I recently went up to Kodiak, Alaska for my sister’s wedding.  It was absolutely wonderful.  Freezing and raining during the actual ceremony, and the week before might have been the busiest week of my life…

What comes to mind when you think of living in fear?  Do you picture something like this?     Somewhere that this is what you see everyday?    That is what I have always thought of.  Somewhere war-torn and filled…