His Grace amazed me today.  For 2 days, sweet sisters in Christ came and scrubbed and laughed and weeded and shared their lives with...

Jesus said, 20 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him,...

Saturday mornings in the Ayer house…can sometimes be….well, ugly.  I contribute it to tired-ness and lack of structure?? What do you...

The initiative against drudgery Arise, shine. Isaiah 60:1. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to...

And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom...

I am a mess.  Truly.  But I live in Grace.  I am fighting for the JOY of my salvation. But it turns out I’m also Iron-deficient.  I’ve...

The groundbreaking is underway... I love our patient, loving Heavenly Father…As I have embarked on my writing/blogging binge today…I...

Evie-bear--our strong-willed, JOY-filled, instrument of patience and growth! Evie is our youngest, but no longer our littlest in size or...

Are you ready to be offered? I am already being poured out as a drink offering. 2 Tim. 4:6 (R.V. marg.). “I am now ready to be offered.”...

I love Oswald Chambers…he has been a faithful friend and mentor to me since college…God still uses his words to minister to Dave and I in...

The days are going quickly!! And the to-do list is growing bigger :)!! Our family is living our days mostly in ‘normal’ mode (whatever...

My heart is longing and learning to see Him in them…I wrestle day to day…to live here and have my heart in two worlds…the longing is...

This is an unbelievable picture of something that has drastically altered the lives of the people who will soon be our neighbors…This...

Here's the Pediatric ward at Soddo Christian Hospital...most likely it will need to expand a bit from it's 3 beds once Dave arrives!!...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “I have a dream that one day my children will be judged, not by the color of their skin, but by the...

Have you seen this??  Praise God for this young man’s courage…and TRUTH today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY

I’m ready for our life to be single-focused, single-minded..single-continented 🙂 The weeks before Christmas were precious,...

My best Christmas gift this year was our best friends coming and living with us for 10 days!! Those were 10 days of truly doing life...

This is a very HUGE, PUBLIC, HEARTFELT, AWE-FILLED Thank you to the hundreds of you that gave to the Lord so our home could be built in...

Tonight I sat in awe…quietly watching the delight in my childrens’ eyes as they CELEBRATED…gobbling all different colors of gelato at our...