Letter to Amber on her birthday… Dear Amber, Today is your 19th birthday! How I wish we could video call you and chat…to see what you look like at 19…to hear what college you applied to…what guy interests you might have…what hobbies you are doing…to hear if you’re still twirling Read more
“Mom, the youth worship team is hanging out at the mall Sunday after the service. Can I go?” This plea was coming from our 13 year old daughter. Mind you, the youth worship team consisted almost entirely of university students, our daughter having been allowed on the team by virtue Read more
What a busy furlough it was! I know furlough is an old fashioned term in today’s missions parlance, where home assignment is currently preferred. Nevertheless, after having lived and worked and raised a family in Kenya for 45 years, we have a difficult time using the term home assignment when Read more
When we think of first love, we tend to think in romantic terms. However, this story is not about that. This is about how God sometimes leads us through our deep interests – those things that ‘float our boat’ or that rock our world. Josh was well ensconced in college Read more
I used to wonder why people got so soppy about their grandchildren, boasting of the children’s exploits, and dragging out the ubiquitous photos of, honestly, quite ordinary looking children. I used to think this was really a bit much…I mean really… And then it happened. We got news from Josh Read more
Dear Dad, In 2 days’ time it will be one year since you moved on to your permanent, forever home. It hardly feels like a year has passed since you left us. I would not have thought that the 2 years you lived with us would have made such a Read more
Everywhere I went, the answer was the same… “No ‘mature entry’ for a Master’s in psychology.” It became clear that I would have to finish my Bachelor’s degree, if I wanted the Master’s. I had heard that many programs of study would take mature entry and experience in life in Read more
“I wonder which is hardest to let go, the first kid or the last one?” This was the thought on my mind as we made preparations to leave Joshua behind at the airport. We had just been in the U.S. for a year. Josh, by then, had graduated from high Read more
Hearing a noise behind me in the bathroom, I glanced in the mirror, confused as to who on earth could be there. This was clearly a distinctly Kenyan man’s voice, saying “Mum, mum…” Sure enough, there was a man’s face reflected in the mirror, nobody I knew! As I turned, Read more
So many times, we hear people talk of others in terms of what they inherited from their parents… “She has her mother’s eyes…His ears stick out just like his father’s…Her physical build is so much like her dad”. But truly, it is not only the physical which we inherit from Read more