I’m a missionary. I live in a sweltering, uncomfortable, remote corner of the world where consistent medical care and convenient eating are nonexistent. We have no parks, no movie theaters, no museums, no zoos, no open air malls with cute little trains, no MOPS groups to join. Church is spent sweating through a theologically questionable […]
We are just days away from boarding that morning flight we watch longingly from our breakfast table each day. The plane that hurtles above our front door is on its way to Port Moresby at 7:20am where there are other planes waiting to take passengers to wonderful places. Places like Cairns. As we watch that […]
My eyes jerked open when the truck slammed into another pothole. At some point in the trip the hot sun, bumpy road, and silent passengers had worked their magic and I was close to sleep. Ray and Willa were strapped in their seats, quiet with the same drowsiness that almost took me. We were heading […]
Willa isn’t scared of much. Things happen to her, around her, near her, because of her, and she doesn’t blink an eye. More often than not in our house, we find the younger comforting the older. We only knew this Willa until the fireworks started earlier in the month. The first illegal explosions rumbling through […]
On the very farthest outreach of my memory, from the time life began rolling itself into events that stuck in my head, I remember episodes of pain enveloping my legs. All encompassing, it pushes everything out of my mind. When it happens, it’s the only thing to feel. Sometimes during the worst episodes, I spend […]
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