February 2012
4 posts
I'm Giving Up Lies.
I never give the season of Lent enough thought. But I have landed on something I can “give up” for Lent with faith that it will indeed bring me closer to God and closer to the person He intended me to be. It’s not Starbucks. It’s not chocolate…
I’m giving up lies.
The world tells me (and you) constant lies. Here’s some of the ones I’m not going to...
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December 2011
2 posts
Good Women Project: What I Learned About Being... →
I love following this blog and especially love this post. Don’t we all feel this way? Love like this seems too good to be true.
2 Corinthians 3:3
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
WatchThursday, December 1st is World AIDS Day. For your viewing pleasure, here is a brief review of HIV in ASL.
Here is the English interpretation of this video:
HIV is a disease that impacts the body’s immune system. This means that if you have an illness, such as a cold or a type of cancer, your body loses it’s ability to recover. This illness could remain in your body and even lead to death if...
November 2011
2 posts
Loving Dangerously
I love a good catchy Christian phrase just as much as the next gal… scandalous grace, radical love….loving dangerously. I can grasp onto these words, cling to them throughout my day to day challenges of smiling at people who are jerks and biting my tongue when someone cuts me off on my commute. But the fact is… truly learning how to put these things into practice hurts. There are...
October 2011
4 posts
Let me paint for you?
I have re-opened my “shop” on Etsy.com, a website community where people can buy and sell homemade items. While painting is something I do in my very rare spare time and I’ve never had any formal training, it’s something I really enjoy! I have a love for words and for languages in general, and love incorporating lyrics or words that have a profound impact on me. Here is one...
“This is a call to all the dead and disappointed
The ones who feel like they are...”
– Alive, Sons + Daughters
The Marathon
Throughout training this spring and summer I thought I’d never experienced an emotional rollercoaster quite like what I’d been through. It seemed that every time I would experience a breakthrough, a new injury would reveal itself. I quickly realized the biggest emotional rollercoaster I would experience was the marathon event itself. Here’s a story about our weekend, pushing...
“When you’ve experienced the resurrected Jesus, the mystery hidden in the...”
– Rob Bell, Love Wins
September 2011
4 posts
Grace
On a day when so many people made me feel so small and inadequate, the one person who had reason to chose the road of love and made me feel worthy. I am beyond grateful and truly in awe of the way Grace covers an unworthy world.
No One is Alone
One of Sondheim’s most brilliant pieces, a musical called Into the Woods, grabbed at my heart once again today. I heard this song on the radio after not hearing it for several months. Nate and I went to see this on stage last year at Emerson and I was moved to tears inumberable times. Though written in 1986 and portraying a mixed up version of all our childhood stories woven into one plot...
“When the world spins crazy,
spins wild and out of control,
spins toward rage...”
– Walter Brueggemann
We're Running for a Cause!
After almost two months of patience to let my body heal from injury and some great physical therapy by our friend Scott…I’m back to running! I have about 5 1/2 weeks to get in some state of marathon-readiness and I’m up for the challenge. Nate and I will be traveling to Chicago to run the marathon there October 9th with our good friends, Phil and Jen McArdle. The photo below...
August 2011
3 posts
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Coming Home (to the Dominican)
We’ve been “home” (in Dorchester) for about 48 hours and I now have the monumental task of trying to put into words what truly can’t be expressed, only felt. My real home seems like the Dominican - the communities in which we work and the families who have “adopted” us over the past four years. It’s my hope this post can help you feel a little bit of...
We are back in the land of hot showers, refrigerators, and electricity. Yet I feel like a stranger in my own house. I yearn to be where it feels like home: Hato del Yaque, DR.
July 2011
3 posts
Triathlon
After a stressful week… a blur of ice packs, ibuprofen, my foam roller, ace bandage, and pillows for elevation… my IT band healed enough to hobble across the finish line at the Vermont Sun Triathlon this past weekend! It was a huge answered prayer to be able to tackle the goal of my first tri. It was equally as wonderful to spend the weekend with great friends, new and old. On Saturday...
Setback
I can see it slipping away…
A week ago, I began experiencing some pain in my right hip. I hobbled around for a few days, stopped doing my training runs, and tried to build more purposeful resting and core strengthening routines into my schedule. Then, two nights ago…disaster struck. My iliotibial (IT) band is strained to its max and it feels like a lightning bolt of pain; like a...
“God named the first human Adam from the Hebrew word for dirt…Humans must...”
– N. Bechtold, RELEVANT Magazine
June 2011
6 posts
The Swim Race
There is a pattern in the major events we are participating in this year. They are all first experiences: swim race, triathlon, marathon. And I am (it seems) desperately unprepared for all of them.
This weekend Nate and I did a 1/3 mile swim race on Captain’s Pond in NH, along with Nate’s mom, Rosey, who did the 1 mile race (because she’s amazing!). It was wet and cold and a...
Rye
I want to take some time to share about my good friend Ryan (also known as Hender, Hennasen, Wryn, or, as I call him, Rye). I’ve known Rye since I was 15 years old. I picked up the phone at a friend’s party and Rye was on the other end. We talked online. We made a date and went to different theaters. We went to prom as friends. We grew close. We grew apart. Then, through God’s...
Republica Dominicana
Over the past four years La Mosca and Hato del Yaque, DR have become second homes to Nate and I. In 2008 we traveled to Santiago, DR with Reunion Christian Church and partnering with GO Ministries hoping to find a passionate national doctor, teacher, construction worker, or pastor to partner with (per GO Ministries’ awesome national empowerment model). The idea is that we would provide...
Our Green Pursuits
This year Nate and I have begun pursuing “living green” in a really purposeful way. While we have always been fans of recycling, not littering, and nature in general, we started to learn more about the impact we have on the environment, ways that we can lessen that impact, and we began to think and pray about way that God calls us to live. In January, we both read a book called Serve...
RFK
Part of being a successful interpreter is to know a little bit about everything so that you can have a mental schema for any topic that comes your way. Because of this, I have been especially knowledge-hungry the last year - needing to know everything about everything and loving every minute of it. I pause every episode of “Law & Order: SVU” when an unfamiliar acronym pops up. Nate...
May 2011
3 posts
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
The Outer Banks
Nate and I recently came back from a week-long trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina. It’s the closest thing we’ve ever had to a true vacation with one another. We’re blessed with having friends all over the country to visit, an amazing second family in the Dominican which we work alongside with every year, and many, many family weddings to attend, but most of those travels...
“If the gospel isn’t good news for everybody, then it isn’t good news...”
– Rob Bell