Category Archives: The Places I Go

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I Heart Portland

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I am settling back in at home after taking a few days to attend the Q Conference . Each year Gabe Lyons and his team pick a different city to host “Q” and this year we were in Portland. And I know three things. One, I’m exhausted. Two, my head is spinning from all the ideas […]

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Staying The Course…

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I have realized something about myself. I don’t do well when I get behind. To be more accurate, if I am not leading or running with the pack, I seem to lose interest, fall further back…and quit. Whether its something important like working through a Bible reading plan or something meaningless like playing a Words with […]

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The Voyage of Celebrity Century

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On Thursday evening I returned from almost a week at sea with a crew of dear friends, several dozen like-minded acquaintances scattered throughout North America, a rested body, mind, and spirit, and the inevitable sneaky pounds affixed to my mid-section (If only there was a “Gain It” app, I could have killed it on this […]

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Don’t Hate Me…

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for what I am about to tell you. Tomorrow morning I leave for a five day Carribean cruise with a bunch of friends. Yes, picture me here. I know. I know. It’s not fair to throw that in your face. Please don’t hate me. I couldn’t resist. But I SO need this trip. I don’t […]

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Deconstructing Idea Camp, Part 2

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Listening to the myriad of speakers at Idea Camp expounding on Orphan Care, I was struck by the fact that we live in a fallen world. An ugly, broken, fallen, world. And even the best of intentions can be distorted into well, evil. It breaks my heart. Really. Before Idea Camp I over-simplified the problem […]

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Deconstructing Idea Camp, Part 1

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Making my way towards California for Catalyst West and have finally found the first quiet time to begin to process, to deconstruct, everything I took in at Idea Camp: Orphan Care. What an incredible couple of days. I’m so glad I followed God’s nudging and ventured out to Northwest Arkansas (which surprisingly is a pretty […]

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Cyber-Stalking, Compassion Friends & A Giveaway

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As soon as I was asked to go to Guatemala with Compassion International last fall, I began cyber-stalking the other bloggers have a better grasp of who would be on the trip. I’m no dummy, I understood that the other bloggers could make or break this experience. Thankfully I already knew, or kind of knew, […]

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A Race, A Cause, And A Team

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For the last few years, I have started each year training for the Country Music Marathon. You see I am the type of exerciser who needs a good reason get myself off the couch and to the gym during the cold winter months. This year as soon as I realized I have a conflict the […]

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On Being Parentless

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I am 34 years old. I left home at eighteen and never looked back. Yet still one of my greatest fears, one of the things that keeps me awake at night, is the thought of losing my parents. Their sheer presence on this planet offers me a strength and a confidence that I simply cannot […]

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I Can’t Say Much But I Can Say This

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I returned from Guatemala two weeks ago. Wow…two weeks…14 days…336 hours. In some ways it seems like just yesterday, in other ways it seems like a lifetime ago. On Friday, Shaun Groves sent an email to the Compasssion Bloggers Guatemala team. I’ve been laying low, reading your posts, praying for you from a distance but […]