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A Few Words

Recently I was caught in my words. It’s one of the worst feelings, to have to retrace what you say, scrambling to justify yourself after a slippery comment. Was it the evil of the words that tumbled from my unguarded…

Maria

I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise will be continually on my lips.  The hernia was showing through her shirt, pulsing out of her delicate brown skin as if a rock were wedged between her ribs. She…

Love by Faith

“People here believe that they can get whatever they want by just believing it hard enough. They are sick and they pray, believing that God will make them well, and when they don’t, they lose faith. Faith isn’t lived out…

Good Friday

  It’s Good Friday today. At 4:30 this morning, we climbed up a hill that overlooked all of Granada. We could see the whole city awakening as the starry lights from below faded into shallow blurs in the light of…

The Pain of God: Part 3

The farm we live on in Nicaragua resides in the shadow of a volcano. I was honestly expecting something a bit more impressive than a craggy mound covered in indigo-shaded trees. I was expecting a massive black and red mountain…