Compassion
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moreWhy You Are Where You Are: For Such a Time as Now
On Tuesday, June 18 th, 2013It’s like the skin of this place is red. Everywhere, red soil sheathes things, like hardly under the surface of Africa’s dirt is her heart. Like you could scratch your toe here and feel the pulse of what’s alive. Everywhere here is a thin place. We drive red roads to meet Anna. We pa...
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moreAn Internet Love Story {Part 1} : How to Live Free
On Monday, June 17 th, 2013This is a love story. A woman named Shannon lived in a suburb in Oklahoma and she had Rocks in her Dryer. The year was 2008. On a farm in Canada, I had a lot of lost marbles. And a clinging 3-year-old, very bad hair, 4 farmboys who only got out of ripped jeans on Sunday, and 1 dimpled tomboy who kept sweetly chopping her own bangs all by her herself. I read Shannon at Rocks in ...
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moreWith Hearts in our throats — and In His Hands
On Saturday, June 15 th, 2013#FarmGirlsinAfrica have landed. And traveled and traveled and traveled. Including a small 12 seater plane, to northern parts of Uganda. Today is our first day on the ground — hearts in our throats — and In His hands. Love is always our only hope. And hasn’t that always been t...
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moreWanna Come with Us to Africa? #FarmGirlsinAfrica
On Wednesday, June 12 th, 2013Two farm girls — one mama and her girl. Asked to go to Africa for a Compassion Canada film trip. To meet one special little girl. And a girl named Katie who i...
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moreSo God Made a Mother:
When the Giving Tree is Really The Giving Mother *UpdatedOn Monday, May 06 th, 2013So, sure, there was this talk of The Giving Tree – but there wasn’t one of us who didn’t know all along it was you, The Giving Mother. You who leaned over a stove and stirred and let spices fall like leaves and you ladled and we slurped and it would be remembered when we ...
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moreThe 1 Thing Radical Really Definitely Has to Look Like — Right Where We Are
On Friday, March 15 th, 2013No one just straight up tells you that the things you’ve seen — become what you see. That you’ll close your eyes a thousand nights from now and it will all be real again — where you were and what they wore, that one look, that one moment, that one frame. That you’ll see the world through what you’ve seen of the world and there’s no goi...
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moreHow to Make a Miracle Happen
On Friday, February 22 nd, 2013They still do happen, miracles, a bit like a flash in the sky. Coming up the backside of th...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Really Have to Know About Your Family
On Thursday, February 21 st, 2013Over here today …. It’s good to be rocked and changed with you all… Related: Of Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent Why It’s Okay to Cry When Lent and Valentines Collide: 40 Days of ThanksLoving
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moreOf Women & Sisters & Family & How You Really Speak Lent
On Wednesday, February 20 th, 2013So Shalom has this bag made by 3 Cords in Haiti that she carries her shoes and Bible in it to Wednesday night Kids Club, and sometimes a hen or a pig, depending on how the day slants and careens. That’s the bag the kid keeps hanging on the first hook inside the bac...
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moreWhy It’s Okay to Cry
On Monday, February 18 th, 2013Apparently if you try to carry a vintage sewing machine through an airport security in your carry-on, you can get yourself patted won. Even if you have all your white hair wrapped up in a bun and you are wearing worn Reeboks with your skirt. Mama just took it like a grandma, thanked TSA, grabbed her bag with said sewing machine and marshalled us like a battalion: “LetR...
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moreFamily Mission Trip #1 (Friday on the Farm)
On Friday, February 15 th, 2013And (I think!) we’re off! Lord willing, we’ll be sharing the God stories in real time as we go with God and stumble ...
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moreWhat Does a bit of Radical Christianity Really Look Like —- Right Where You Are? {Pt 2}
On Wednesday, January 23 rd, 2013When I first read her story on the screen, I want to drive a for sale sign into the front lawn and sell all the pigs. Mainly because I don’t think I can shoe horn a few hundred hogs into a suitcase — and there’s now way around it: my heart’s already left on a jet plane for Africa. Because here I am with the c...
