"Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light." Micah 7:8 (NIV) My dad made history come alive for his children. The summer before we left for Congo, he and my mom took us to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. I was ten years old, Nicol was eight, and Todd was five. What could have been a very boring day turned out to be … [Read more...] about Hand-to-Hand Combat
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Through the Fire
One cold November evening, when I was nine years old, our 73 year-old farmhouse caught fire due to a faulty oil space heater. Weather-beaten and aged, the house was completely engulfed in flames within twenty minutes. My father was away on a ministry trip in California thousands of miles away from our western Michigan home. My mother, sister, brother, and I escaped the flames with the clothes on … [Read more...] about Through the Fire
A Chance to Obey
I L.O.V.E. love! I never went through a stage growing up when I believed boys had cooties. Most of my daydreams as a young girl centered around who I would marry one day. I made lists of my name ending with my latest crush's last name as mine written out on notebook paper or in the diary that I kept as an older tween/young teen. I always anticipated sharing life with my knight in shining … [Read more...] about A Chance to Obey
