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...
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 11, 2010 | Family, South Africa, Travel
I remember the exact moment I loved the woman my dad married, when the grieving years for my mom had passed. It was during brunch. The day after their wedding. All the kids had come over to join them for a meal. She had two and my dad had us three. The spring sunshine...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 27, 2010 | Faith, Family, South Africa, Travel
He made me buzz off all his locks yesterday. I thought I would be heart broken. But instead I discovered my brother. Underneath all those curls, there was Luke staring back at me. All the strong, sturdy lines of a face I’ve known since 1981. There it was today,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 26, 2010 | Family, Inbetween, Travel
I’ve spent hundreds of hours of my life in airports. And I still contend there is something magical about them. They sweep us up and out of ourselves; a moment of complete suspension, between one reality and another. And we see more reflected in the windows than...
