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Change Your Playlist. Change Your Life.
“I am not good at anything.” “No one could ever love me.” “I would be happy if I had …… (a husband, a baby, a better job, more money)” Lies. These are all lies. But sometimes they feel more real than the truth. How did we get here? We are easily deceived. And as much […]
World Changing – Writing History or Fairytale Dreaming?
“If you could to anything to change the world, what would it be?” That’s quite a question to answer in a group of influential leaders that you are just getting to know. Considering that question started to remind me of answering the hypothetical question a genie emerging from a bottle might ask. While it is […]
Welcome to His World
“Fasten your seat belts, “ the pilot stated in both Finnish and English as our plane landed on my first international experience. Even though my feet had still never touched foreign soil, the introduction into a foreign world had already begun. I began to notice differences as our flight attendants wore black, leather gloves as […]
Sabotaging Love
“So you are saying that I can never ever have ice cream again for the rest of my life?!?!” I was riding in a minivan, my sister at the wheel, my young niece in the back seat on our way to…. well, get ice cream. It sounds pretty ridiculous, doesn’t it? Somehow in her young, […]
When You Wish Upon a Prayer?
I could feel my heartbeat in my ears. My breathing was shallow and unsatisfying. Palms sweaty as I gripped my bag, ears perked to listen for my name, eyes wide open staring at the ticket agent who held my destiny, and my feet – ready to sprint towards the gate to catch the plane back […]
#bringbackourgirls
I recently wrote an article for the website of the organization that I work with. If you want to join us and others in Nigeria who are praying for the abducted girls, you can read about it here .
Reality Check
You matter. That’s what my friend, Emily, said to a room full of privileged teens last night. You might be asking yourself why she used the 10 minutes she was given to stress that point. I mean, they are white, self-absorbed kids and on top of that, they are “rich.” I think it is because […]
An Airport Adventure: Conclusion
The man – a young American was peeling an enormous grapefruit, carelessly squirting large puddles on the newly zambonied floor. “Want some?” I declined the grapefruit, but welcomed the conversation. Come to find out, he was a news producer for a major network, assigned to the Moscow Bureau. He educated me on the life of […]
An Airport Adventure, Part 1
Bleary eyed from a flight at the crack of dawn, my body was fighting to sleep and my mind was pushing me to stay alert. I was in for a long day of sitting in one of Moscow’s many airports – waiting for a team to arrive from a church back home. This was the […]
Pictures and Postcards
Valentine’s Day can be painful. I learned that in the 3rd grade. Mrs. Kendrick asked me to staple every kid’s Valentine sack to the bulletin board. The stapler got jammed and I accidentally stapled my thumb. When she noticed that progress had ceased, she looked up from reading Eddie’s Menagerie aloud to the class and said, “Oh, Lord. […]
Comin' Up That Branch 