Be Bold, Do Faith
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 [...]
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.
For the wages of sin is death –Romans 6:23a (NIV) People love to look with tunnel vision at what others are doing wrong, but, rarely do they survey the gruesome and far reaching effects of their personal sin. I think many of us stop up our ears when it comes to this topic. We don’t want [...]
I told myself certain diagnoses were likely, prepped for the news down to the last expectant seconds as my husband and I took our seats in the psychologist’s office. But the words, out loud and official, slammed the Thing into reality, gave it legs. Before the sonic boom of the diagnosis, our Thing hadn’t existed. Only possibilities.
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.