Category: Autobiography

Framed

They never tell you when you move four and half hours away from home, cross an international border, and exchange the name “teacher” for the name “student” that you will face an identity crisis so piercing that it leaves you feeling empty. In the… Continue Reading “Framed”

In Scents of Time

Early spring, gray sky lingered over the greening lawn and swaying evergreens that hugged the community center that Sunday.  Visiting a newly planted church, I had already taught the children’s Sunday school, joined the morning worship, eaten a delicious potluck lunch, and played a… Continue Reading “In Scents of Time”

My Eid in a City of Pride: Part 2

Our conversations were many and varied that afternoon, and yet I see in them the indelible fingerprint of the Spirit of One Who Gave His promised Son. We are told to relax on the couch amongst the floral pillows, while our hosts bring us… Continue Reading “My Eid in a City of Pride: Part 2”

My Eid in a City of Pride: Part 1

I’ve always loved rainbows.  They are colour and order, two of my favourite things combined.  They appear rarely, rain and sun mixed to cause my family to pause in wonder and run out of doors.  Every pack of markers or pencil crayons I’ve ever… Continue Reading “My Eid in a City of Pride: Part 1”

Defined by God Alone

I still don’t know him real well and probably never will.  He was a friend of my cousins at one time, he traveled as a hobby to do short term missions, and ended up marrying my co-teachers sister.  I sang with him at a… Continue Reading “Defined by God Alone”