There are days when I’m simply homesick. It’s a homesick that isn’t really about a specific physical destination at all – but about a place where I feel most “normal.” A place where my heart feels most settled. I know that, truth be told, I’ll never really feel truly home …
Five minutes. I pray about what I’ll say to several hundred teenagers tomorrow night. I’ve got 5 minutes to share a little bit about my recent trip to Uganda – 5 minutes to inspire each of them to get involved in an incredible effort called Project30. 300 Students. 30 Days. …
We sat quietly as the dawn began to break, the landscape around us shifting from grayscale to color. Jim was reviewing the images he had captured while I organized notes and listened to a dove measure time with a drum-beat song. As he sat, cropping and adjusting contrast on the …
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it …
Today’s journey took 11-1/2 hours, and left me weary and worn and covered in dirt. It was caked around my nose, had congregated on my forehead in a misshapen heart, and had even found its way into my ears. I knew the wind stung as we traveled today along pitted and …
“I want to see myself in there.” He pointed to my iPhone as I stooped to get photos of family at a water well. We had walked some distance from the team who had gathered under the shade of trees in front of a primary school in Kyani, Uganda. Even …
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. ~Pissarro Today, we journey 21 hours by plane to paint words of hope and life through the ministry of Arise Africa. I pray to have eyes to see every beautiful thing, no matter how small. …
Today, two men are being heroes to the discarded. In Texas, Brad Rock is teaching kids in foster care and kids with special needs how to waterski and wakeboard at a wonderful camp called Skiin’ with the Galilean. In Uganda, working with Arise Africa, Ryan Nowakowski has just configured an …