Imagine... ...you’re walking along the beach and you have one bucket with you. It’s not your job to collect all of the sand but a part of you feels responsible for doing so. You can only collect one grain of sand at a time if you want to do it well and sometimes it could [...]
In the Beginning... When I first heard the phrase ‘Justice is Redemption’, it didn’t make much sense to me. That was because I didn’t know what those words truly meant and how they were used in the Bible. Therefore, the search for what ‘Justice is Redemption’ began with discovering what these words mean. I found [...]
Who else is setting goals for 2018? No – not the ones for the gym! Those are great, but we’re talking about the ones with purpose and passion, the ones you aren’t backing down on and you’ve called your team in to tell about. One of our goals as we have looked on past seasons [...]
Ethnocentrism Regardless of worldview or cultural upbringing, we all have ethnocentric tendencies. Ethnocentrism is the way that we evaluate other cultures according to preconceptions that are based in an individual’s home culture. The initial reaction is to see your own culture as right and to filter every other culture in relation to that (usually negatively). [...]
The Final Whistle... Last November, when the buzzer sounded as the clock hit zero, my thought as I walked off of the turf field was that soccer was over. This reality broke my heart. The sport that I played since I was a little girl all the way through college would no longer be a [...]
The Sun Rise This morning as I watched the sun rise over the mountains in the beautiful country that I get to call home I was overwhelmed with thankfulness. Before moving to Haiti, I had no idea how blessed I was (and still am). I realized how many things I took for granted and never [...]
Uncertainty... Maybe it is the discomfort of being a minority that encourages these moments where I am uncertain of what to do. What to say. Where to go. And, how to express myself. Maybe it is nothing more than a displacement of my heart from God and a part of His redeeming me to Himself. [...]
Wonderful I have seen wonders. We have all seen wonders. God showed the Israelites many wonders. God delivered them out of Egypt through his miracles and plagues. God guided them on their journey in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. God parted the Red Sea. God delivered their [...]
