My days are filled with ordinary things, but when only a week remains before I head off across the country, ordinary things take on special meaning. This Sunday, I took my phone to church so Erin and I could take pictures together in our look-alike dresses. Erin was mostly unimpressed. She thought being thrown up […]
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July was everything. It wounded me, warmed me, overwhelmed me. Everything that could have happened, did happen. There was a family reunion. There was Deer Lake. There was this crazy awesome group of people—I call them team members, therapists, friends—who impacted my world in ways I didn’t expect. There was beauty. There were sunsets. Children.
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That’s us by the Cessna in the feature photo above (email readers will need to click through to the blog), ready to take flight for Deer Lake. This is my fourth year of traveling to Deer Lake, a reserve of around a thousand people in northern Ontario, to help with summer Bible school. This year, we had
Our trip ended in Canton, known for its duck and delicious teas and dim sum. Our Chinese friends, Liang and Sami, live here, in the city of Guangzhou. Our second to last day in China, they took us to Sami’s hometown: a small town in the countryside of Canton whose name I can’t remember. I
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Xiapu is a county known for its mud flats… …and its sea food. Soon after we arrived at our inn on the edge of the city, we walked down to the harbor, where the tide was just coming in. We hailed a captain and asked for a ride. He took us with a few other
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