making life grow
I love food fresh from the garden, particularly tomatoes. A couple years in a row, I had idyllic visions of growing our own crop and having a limitless supply of red, juicy deliciousness.
The first season, a vicious fungus ravaged every last plant. The second season, our 2-year-old son ravaged every last plant (sneaking into our garden and snatching every…
when faith is weak
To say my Christian faith is unflappable would be untrue. It’s to the contrary. For even though I write devotions, engage in work on behalf of the poor in East Africa, and long for my confidence in Jesus Christ to be strong—often, too often, my faith is pathetically, embarrassingly weak. In the midst of personal hardships, I find it more…
going forward
The December holidays are the longest in Kenya’s school calendar, and with excited children running and hollering up and down helter-skelter, it can sometimes feel like a never-ending drag. And so it was amidst such turmoil that I tugged my eight year old daughter away from her play and proposed that it would be good to have a glance at…
when God ignores
Michael felt as if his prayers were simply bouncing off the ceiling. He couldn’t understand God’s silence. Day after day he pleaded with Him to deal with the injustice in his workplace. But evil persisted, and God seemed absent.
Can you identify with Michael? Habakkuk could. He lived during the final dark days of Judah—just before the captivity of her…
technology and the trivial
If our technology had existed in Jesus’ day, our Bibles might read: “Jesus asked His disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ but they were checking their e-mail and missed the question.” Or “A third time He asked him, ‘Simon . . . do you love Me?’ Peter was hurt that Jesus asked the question a…
