Tag: Trials
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Two Roads to Contentment
In Brennan Manning’s powerful book, “Abba’s Child”, he recounts Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Turkey about a young boy named Ruller. Ruller feels down about himself because nothing he does amounts to much. One day, while meandering through the woods, Ruller spots a wounded wild turkey and thinks of how proud everyone will be of him if…
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Patience in Well-Doing
In truth, if we know how to look, we find evidence of human dignity all around us, in the valiant efforts ordinary people make to meet necessity, to combat adversity and disappointment, to provide for their children, to care for their parents, to help their neighbors, to serve their country. Life provides numerous hard occasions…
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That Time I Lost a Baby in an Airport in Papua New Guinea: Reflections on Our 10,000 Mile Journey
One week ago, I looked out the window at white Wisconsin snow clinging to oak trees like a robe. This morning, I see mist rising like a spirit above verdant mountains in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. In one week, God has brought our family of eight nearly ten-thousand miles to the other side…
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One Month to PNG!
Hi – it’s Genae…normally Jake is the writer, but I have a lot on my mind lately 🙂 I can’t believe that I’m finally saying this – we have our plane tickets!!! We officially leave for Papua New Guinea on April 5th, 2023! We will arrive on Good Friday, and our first weekend there will…
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A Bearded Child, A Djembe, and Faith
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:2 Many of Jesus’ disciples, then as now, would die for their faith. That…