There is so much suffering in the world; my life seems a bed of roses in comparison: I’m not living on a garbage heap. I haven’t been persecuted or imprisoned. I haven’t lost a child or a spouse. I haven’t suffered debilitating disease or disfigurement. I don’t have to...
An invitation from Matthew 11:28-30 Come. You are tired. Come. You cannot pick up this new yoke with the load you are already carrying. You have a choice, My child: My yoke or the one you now have. Trust Me, that I never meant for you to carry such...
I hate it here. That is all there is to it. The heat. The bugs. The constant shoving of powerful drugs into my kids’ bodies just to keep them semi-healthy. The oppression and injustice and poverty I see every single time I step outside my house. Problems I am...
When we returned to the States for home service, I did not realize how weary and burned-out I was. We had just finished our second term as church planters in the Tokyo area. When I went to our family doctor for my physical check-up, he diagnosed me as having...
