Be Bold, Do Faith
My kid doesn’t have dyslexia! Whew, I had to get that out right away. Turns out the severe working memory deficiencies made my child’s symptoms appear like dyslexia, but since beginning Cog-Med and Lindamood-bell therapy she’s jumped from a reading level that was a year behind her age to one that is six years ahead. She’ll [...]
My first experience with an orphanage rocked me. I’ll never forget infants swaddled and stacked three to a crib. Or the tiny room teeming with snot-nosed toddlers covered with fungal skin infections clambering just to get our attention, to be touched. Or the girl with obvious deformities in the corner self-stimulating by swaying back and [...]
For a week of summer in the 6th grade I got to stay at a camp that boasted a flotilla of canoes, one heck of a swimming obstacle course, horses for riding, white water rafting during the day, chapel in the evenings… and leeches. You should ask my cousin about those. They went for her [...]
I promised a few friends I would share what life is like now that we are homeschooling one daughter. That was weeks ago. Which should give you at least some idea of my schedule. We began treatment for our daughter’s anxiety, which developed out of years of trying to function without anyone being aware of [...]
Today is one of the holiest days of the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian calendar. It is the celebration of Timkat. You can learn more about the festival and see images of the gorgeous city of Lalibela in this short video from National Geographic. Melkam Timkat to all my Ethiopian friends.
God issued me a command: be BOLD, Jen. Easy for Him to say. Being BOLD is the opposite of what I do when I’m living life without depending on Jesus.