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by Lisa-Jo | Nov 30, 2010 | Faith, Family, South Africa, Travel
Some days remembering to make myself breakfast is a victory. Because life can come at you hard and fast in the mornings. And before you know it kids are already out playing in the piles of mulch in the backyard and calling for snacks when mama hasn’t even gotten...
by Lisa-Jo | Nov 15, 2010 | Family, South Africa, Travel
I’m on the road. Travelling. For work. It’s been wonderful. Lots of time to get lost in great conversations and beautiful ideas. Not so much time to write everything that’s bubbling over in my heart. But I will. Soon. For today, though, I’m...
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;...
