February 15, 2010
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to a place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away [...]
January 15, 2010
O Lord God Almighty, who is like you? You are mighty, O Lord, and your faithfulness surrounds you. Psalms 89:8
Dear friends,
A new year! We are busy this month preparing for another year full of ministry. We always take the first few weeks of the year to evaluate how last year [...]
December 15, 2009
Then he who sat on the throne said, ¨Behold, I make all things new.¨ Revelation 21:5
Dear friends,
Thanks so much for your prayers this Christmas season! As I write, we are still in the thick of it, but once this arrives in your mailbox I will be breathing a little deeper. [...]
November 15, 2009
We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.
–Archbishop Oscar Romero
Dear friends,
Isn’t it amazing [...]
Friends and family,
“We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life, and it is killing us.
- Margaret Wheatley, Turning to One [...]
March 2010
I celebrated my birthday last month! It was great! A group of friends and I sang karaoke at a local place. The office staff members and I enjoyed the most delicious cinnamon rolls from Wheatfields Bakery. I watched The Bachelor with my favorite “Monday is hen-night” girlfriends. I spent evenings in the company of [...]
For several weeks ice covered the sidewalks and streets and the snow and rain seem like it would never stop falling. Before Christmas until a few days ago we have shuffled to and from the center in sometimes zero degree weather with snow in our faces and ice under our boots. I have fallen three [...]
For several weeks ice covered the sidewalks and streets and the snow and rain seem like it would never stop falling. Before Christmas until a few days ago we have shuffled to and from the center in sometimes zero degree weather with snow in our faces and ice under our boots. I have fallen three [...]
Dear Friends and Family,
We just said goodbye to dear friends who came to visit us in our new home in Chişinău, Moldova. Chris, Phileena and Liz left the WMF office in Omaha for a field visit to Romania and decided to take a few days to explore the land beyond the River [...]
A voice of one calling:
“In the desert prepare the way for the Lord;
make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will [...]