I stumbled across this picture while looking back at my last nine months.  The caption on Facebook with it was, Tomorrow begins nine months of living out of this backpack! Crazy, exciting, and quite scary. And now, today, I get…

This last week I left many pieces of my heart in Ocean View.   I left pieces with all 23 of my creche babies.    I left pieces with my three little sisters, Shilene, Shanika, and Chantel.    I left…

I stepped on the scale for the first time since January in Thailand. The result?    I have gained over 20 lbs since the beginning of this trip and this is the heaviest I have ever weighed in my life. …

2 1/2 months in Honduras, 2 1/2 months in Thailand, and 3 1/2 MONTHS in South Africa.    To say it plainly, I was not too excited for this last stop on our trip.    It was not going to…

My days here in South Africa are filled with yelling, singing, dancing, kicking, hitting, laughing, crying, and every other action that comes with taking care of twenty-five 3&4 year olds. I work in a kreshe (a preschool of sorts) in…

"Tell the man you are sitting next to that I love him and I am waiting for him to take that next step in my relationship with him." Uh no thank you God. I am not doing that. This was…

Let go.     Why are those two simple words so hard to put into action? Since the beginning of this trip God has been asking me to let go of my family, completely releasing them into His grasp. For…

New Year's Eve started out with two wishes, mine was to to dance and my teammate Kate's was to sing praises in the streets. Two very different wishes but it's funny what the Lord answers sometimes and how He answers. …

I  am the beloved. I have heard that almost all my life but haven't started to truly understand its meaning until recently.                                      …