by Lisa-Jo | Sep 26, 2010 | Compassion, Faith, Family, Kids, Motherhood
I go to Guatemala and a secret goes with me. So new, so delicate, so unexpected I barely even whisper it to myself. I unwrap it on my birthday. On the day I mourn half a lifetime lived without my mother, I hear Jesus whisper, “Life!” Always He remakes....
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 20, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Compassion, Faith, Travel
Click to hear an audio recording of: “Why I Sing in the Dark” by Lisa-Jo, The Gypsy Mama Sometimes a song drops into your soul. And it’s as warm as the sun shining out of the chaos at midnight as a friend tic, tack, toe types beauty out of bedlam by the...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 16, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Travel
We flew home from Guatemala and Compassion International late Sunday afternoon. On Monday this arrived for me in the mail. And then today, another one. The first dated July 17th and the other August 18th. One for the email I sent him and one for the birthday card,...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 14, 2010 | Blogging, Callings, Compassion, Faith, Travel
Lost. Even though I am sitting on my own bed under the duvet we’ve had since Pete and I got married, I don’t quite know how to find my way back home. Stranded – in between countries – it’s where I’ve spent most of my life. You’d think I’d be used to it by now. Soweto,...
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...
