For the last week, Shaun Groves has been in Kenya with other various bloggers documenting and sharing how Compassion International is serving and rescuing the people of Kenya.  When I say people I mean more than just the children that are sponsored through Compassion.  The sponsorship of these children changes their entire family’s lives.
Shaun is [...]

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5
March

Seriously Messed Up!!!

In a good way.
If you don’t want to be messed up.  Don’t want to be convicted or have tears streaming down your face, do not click the link below.
If you want to see lives that have been changed.  If you want to see hope in the eyes of beautiful people.  If you want to be [...]

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3
March

A Wee Bit of Ahhhh

Shawn and I had a wonderful time in Prescott over the weekend.  It was full of lots of time to rest, relax, read, and just be with each other.
Saturday evening I got to see a friend I hadn’t seen in six years.  In that time she has had four beautiful children.  Lately we’ve kept in [...]

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28
January
Like An Armadillo Crossing the Road in Rush Hour

Like An Armadillo Crossing the Road in Rush Hour

I have felt so helpless lately.  It started a while ago seeing images of precious people living on nothing just trying to get by.
It came roaring at me two weeks ago with the earthquake in Haiti.  The images of poverty stricken, broken people floated before my eyes.  I didn’t close the websites or stop reading [...]

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18
January

200,000

When I logged onto my computer at work this morning I read this headline for this story on the BBC feed I use Haiti Quake Toll May Be 200,000.  My heart just breaks.  It cries out for God’s mercy.
Last night I was praying for our little girl Nikita in India, and the people in Haiti.  [...]

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13
January

How Do You Pray?!?!

Today we are all reeling from the devastating earthquake in Haiti.  Thanks to technology images float in front of our eyes of the hurt, dead, and demolished.
The country and her people obviously need prayer and financial support.  Their lives have been stripped of the little they had to absolute nothingness.  I started thinking how exactly [...]

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16
September
India On My Heart and Mind

India On My Heart and Mind

The end of April Shawn and I sponsored a little girl in India.  It is something we’d talked about doing, but never actually took the steps until we read the blog postings by the Compassion Bloggers that were in India at that time.  I prayed that God would give us the girl that he wanted [...]

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