I need to bare my heart today, but not for the purpose of the exposing, because there isn’t really much about opening up that makes me healed, but rather I feel that friendship and friends are worthless without the truth, and it’s truth in this matter that sets us free. Lately, despite the grandest of …

Its dark outside, and by dark I don’t mean the kind of dark that you and I are used to, I mean the kind of dark that happens when your whole neighborhood’s power goes out and the stars light up like a beautiful three dimensional painting that only God could dream of.  One that when you …

I have something very special, but also very challenging to share with you today, I did not write it, but rather someone we could all learn a lot from did.  Her name is Julie, and her and her husband are heroes of mine.  We often speak on this blog about living lives that are messed …

Her eyes are set deep, dry leathery skin wrinkles out from them in every direction, as I look closer I can almost feel as though each line across her face tells a story of pain, of suffering, of struggle beyond what I am able to understand.  Hawa moves her hand across her face and wipes …

Hi, there! ; This is not really the most “normal” of posts here on the blog, most of the time we talk about life in Ethiopia, the good-bad-ugly, of raising a family here and how blessed we are to have forty five kids who are in our new families that we created here from widows …