Category Archives: compassion
Roadschooling and how to change a life
Dedicated to my road/homeschool mommy pals: Maureen, Deanna, Martha, Julie & Renee. Miss you all! Today we visited a radio station. I wanted to consider it a bit of a …
Colombia Feature in SGN Scoops
Writing about our trip to Colombia with Compassion International is easy. Writing about it in a magazine-esque way…challenging. My attempt is in here, which also happens to be my one-year …
Labor Day, Leonardo, and the power of words
Tonight on the street we passed a church marquee that said, “On Labor Day, we pray for those seeking jobs.” Now, we were wizzing by on the motorcycle, but we …
Muppets & memories
I don’t really remember the Muppet Movie so much, but when I was in junior high choir, we sang a medley of songs from the soundtrack. One of them, even …
Joan Wilder’s adventure has nothing on mine
Just eight days ago, my only mental images of Colombia were from the fun & far-fetched ’80s movie, Romancing the Stone. I totally! dug this movie as a kid, mostly, …
Dios te ama
It will take me a long time to process all I have seen, learned, felt, heard, here in lovely Bogota, Colombia. But in our final project visit today, a simpler …
God does not keep anything; He will give it all to you
Those very wise words in the title were spoken by this beautiful young woman, a college graduate who now works at a university. She was able to attend college through …
Jeni the Warrior and what hope looks like
Jeni loves her kids, David and Karol. She is proud of the things they learn at school (David loves math) and what they learn at their Compassion project (Karol recites …
Yo quiero pizza! & other meaningful communication
After 4 years of Spanish classes in junior high and high school, today I was finally able to communicate meaningfully with native-speaking Spanish speakers. Here are some examples of those …
short bursts of mayhem
