by Lisa-Jo | Sep 12, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Travel
From the book of Isaiah, chapter 51: 1″Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, Who seek the LORD: 3Indeed, the LORD will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places And her wilderness He will make like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD;...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 11, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Compassion, Faith
Hello, my name is Lisa-Jo and I am a lame Compassion International sponsor. Yea, I’m thinking of starting a support group – “Lame Sponsors Anonymous.” ‘Cause after today I just know that there are others out there like me who could be founding members. Here’s the...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 10, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith
There’s a song that echoes through my childhood. My mom used to sing it with my brothers and me and we would do it in rounds. I remember those evenings on the frayed brown corduroy couch in Faerie Glen, Pretoria when she would coach us on when to stand and when to...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 9, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Family, Travel
My youngest son, Micah, started preschool today. I wasn’t there. But, after today, I can more-than-imagine how it went down. When a mama sits in a roomful of kids her heart wants to sneak out of her body and wrap tight, tight hugs around shy and gangly arms and...
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by Lisa-Jo | Sep 8, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Travel
To be caught on the winds of the evening and cast up high, high into God’s sunset is to see the world through different eyes. Looking down far I see with fresh perspective how very small we are in all this wide expanse of majesty that we barely notice when it isn’t...
