Poverty
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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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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...
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moreBecause We’re Women in a Long Line of Women {*UPDATED at bottom of post}
On Tuesday, December 11 th, 2012It wasn’t planned or anything, no more than you can get all your ducks lined up in a row — no more than you can stop love from breaking free. I just bent a bit on a December 11th, bent and swayed and prayed, and I had two babies on the same day, December 11th — two years apart. One early in the morning, 6:27 am, in the middle of a Canadian blizzard, and the o...
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more10 Real Ways You Could Really Be the Change in the World
On Thursday, July 19 th, 2012In the days after, my throat about seals off. On the edge of the bed in the dark before morning, all I can do is is sit at the edge of the world and close my eyes, wince through every hard searing. It hurts and it doesn’t matter because there’s no getting around it — you do have to figure a way out to swallow the world down. ...
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moreThe 1 Thing You Really have to Know About Your Family
On Tuesday, July 17 th, 2012Iam not going to lie. When your kin comes knocking on your own back door — come to ask how that trip to Haiti went — how can you look them in the eye and lie? How can you lie still when babies are drowning in a sea of poverty? How can you not scream? I tell Mama that I think I’m angry. Mama sits down. And I p...
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moreweekends are for the best worship
On Saturday, July 14 th, 2012Coming to you live from our drive through Port Au Prince this morning…. {Please consider clicking off music slider just below top nav bar to hear the best kind of worship — right in the midst. RSS readers can view video here… } and what song’s on repeat in my heart Caleb and sweet Kechnaider who needs a sponsor {b: June 25, 2008)R...
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moreWhat You Really Need to Know Before You Step Out into the World
On Tuesday, July 10 th, 2012What have you got to make sure you really know before you step out into the whole wide world? Maybe you just keep stepping into the gloriously messy world and God makes it clearer than you’d ever hoped? I fly to Haiti with Compassion, with you, our oldest son on the brink of stepping out from under his mother’s wing and I stand beside you. I stand beside t...
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moreWhat Your Address Really Is
On Monday, July 09 th, 2012The bus that we boarded at the airport, it drove right through an earthquake. It turned out of the airport like we did this afternoon, with a Canadian Compassion team on board just like ours, and somewhere on its way through the streets toward the Hotel Montana, something grabbed hold of the earth and shook it hard and the ground imploded, like a lung sunken ...
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moreWhy Now is the Perfect Time
On Friday, July 06 th, 2012On the way into town, the boy told me the wheat was about ready. And I look across to the west and all those gold heads swaying yes — and I look over at him, elbow resting half out the window and all July’s heat blowing in, and none of this was supposed to happen this way. The Farmer had said yes, if any week would work, he had said this one would...
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moreWhen You Want a Great Life Plan
On Thursday, April 26 th, 2012The day after Resurrection Sunday, day after the world stopped because God had risen up and walked out of the earth — his father came and sat at the table, and we hadn’t seen him in four months. We served the last of the lamb and the first of that spinach. And the Farmer sat at the table with his dad and they sit at the table and talk dirt and wheat and land and hor...
