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...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 6, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Family
Home is where you don’t have to care if you have morning hair. Home is where you can slurp the last of your soda and suck every delicious drop of juice-running-down-your-elbows deliciousness out of a ripe nectarine. Home is where you can wear your PJs all day...
by Lisa-Jo | Sep 2, 2010 | Faith, Motherhood, South Africa
My father sat in the pew of a church in Philadelphia with a slip of paper in his hands. The cold encamped outside was a far cry from the mosquito hot shores of South Africa. Three years. He had brought his young family Stateside for three years to add a Masters of...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 31, 2010 | Blogging, Compassion, Faith, Travel
In one week I will board a plane with a team of three other bloggers and travel to Guatemala with Compassion International. I want you to come with me. I want to paint a picture of the child development programs we visit that is vivid enough for you to feel the sun on...
by Lisa-Jo | Aug 26, 2010 | Faith, Family, Motherhood
Click on the link below (twice) to download and listen to an audio recording of me reading today’s post. Once it’s loaded you can come back to this page to read along. My Zululand; My Birthday Under the boughs of the mango groves in the heat of the hot,...
