What’s in the Tea? A look at the book “Transforming Grace”

Here in Tokyo, our family drinks a lot of tea—green tea, barley tea, and herbal tea. There are so many different types and flavors of tea! So, when one of our mentors used the analogy of a tea bag to describe a person’s heart, it really stuck with me. He said that when exposed to hot...

Breaking the Lies and Reclaiming Identity

“When you lose someone or when people steal something of you, you’re left trying to find yourself again.” Ann Voskamp in A Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life.  I put the book down in my lap and stare out the window to process what I just read. I had never connected these...

Sticky Note Names

The best present I have ever received has been sticky notes. On my thirty-third birthday my husband left me a sticky note on the nightstand by our bed that said, “You are Beautiful.” I asked him what the sticky note was for, and he told me it was my birthday present. For the next couple...

Are We There Yet? In the Land Between

“Hey, I thought you left already. Why are you still here?” It is the question that will pour salt into the already gaping wound of any hopeful heart when they have watched many a calendar page flip by and still have not stepped aboard the plane to begin life overseas. The shame hits me like...