• Month of Thanksgiving – days 6 & 7

    6 – thankful for my friends.  I have some that are super honest with me and I cherish that.  Honesty brings people closer. 7 – thankful for clean water.  After spending time in countries where you can’t drink the tap water makes you grateful for this simple luxury.

  • Pictures from Africa

    Here’s a small sampling of pictures from Africa

  • Month of Thanksgiving – days 4&5

    4 – thankful for my massage therapist.  Not only is she great at what she does, I consider her a friend, and she’s a Christian! 5 – thankful for the learning opportunities offered through my denomination (Foursquare).  Just finished a class called Life-Long Learning, not sure what’s next, but I’m…

  • Live with Abandon

    song in my heart today…

  • Month of Thanksgiving – days 2&3

    Day 2 – thankful for my MS support group.  Even though MS doesn’t bother me anymore, it’s still nice to get together with people you have something in common with. Day 3 – thankful for my church!  God is up to something with New Voice Church and I’m excited to…

  • Month of Thanksgiving – day 1

    I did this all November last year, seems like a good tradition to start. Today I’m thankful for life God has given me.  I know that’s vague.  But just in general, even with the ‘bad’ things that have happened, I’m grateful for the masterpiece God is weaving together.  It’s an…

  • One week later

    Hard to believe I’ve already been home from Africa a week! I miss the people I met, both my teammates and people of Africa.  Seeing/witnessing the miracles (see last entry). Normal just seems, well, boring.  I think I’ve been ruined for it!  Every time I go on a trip, I…

  • Miracles

    Africa already seems like it was a different life.  Was I really there just a couple days ago?  Or was it all a dream? I’ve got pictures and blog entries to prove I was there.  But it seems like it was an out-of-body experience.  Hard to explain. I thank God…