The Church – Cambodia

🙏🏻🙏🏻 One of my favorite things when traveling is experiencing church in another country. In another language. It’s truly a glimpse of heaven! Every tribe, every nation. Hate to break it to you, Western Church, I’m almost 100% positive worship in heaven won’t be in English. And visiting churches outside our norm opens your eyes …

People of Cambodia

#1 takeaway from my trip to Cambodia… the people. I had the privilege of meeting some of the kindest, most humble and beautiful people in the world. It even starts before they speak, with their traditional greeting/gesture called the sompeah (🙏🏻). This greeting goes a long way and it’s humbling to be greeted in this …

Welcome back – Cambodia

“Welcome back, how was your trip?” Honestly, this is where I freeze. My immediate thoughts are always “how much time do you have?”, but in reality I have about 30 seconds to fill you in on a life changing experience. I normally settle with “it was good”, “life changing”, or “different”. But I normally grossly …

Pivot. Pivot. Cambodia.

   It’s safe to say that this past year has been nothing but a time of transition and pivoting for my family and me. So, why would my plans for a mission trip be any different? I was supposed to be going to Albania this week, but plans change, and Pivot! We had to postpone …

Adversity

Do you remember those motivational pictures that everyone used to have in their office? An epic picture. One word with it’s definition. This weekend I saw the perfect picture of this. And a picture is worth a thousand words. Adversityadverse or unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress If this …

Sunrise

The past few mornings I’ve been making a point to get up before the sun to have a few quiet moments. One thing has really stood out to me. The song birds. We all know that the rooster is supposed to crow at dawn, but around here I just have song birds. And I’ve been …

Rest

It’s crazy how sometimes you can’t seem to shake something God’s trying to teach you. Over the past week or two it seems like every scripture I read, every podcast I listen to, and even the radio shows are talking about our culture being too busy. How many times do we respond to the question …

Waters

The other day I was reading through Psalm 93 on my lunch break. 3-The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring. 4-Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty!I actually said …

Screen Time

I find it funny that every Sunday my phone sends out a screen time report. Every week I say "I ran out of time" or "I wish I had more time" but the report shows that you did have time, you just squandered it away. What if our lives sent out a report every Sunday? …

Messy

One thing I've realized over the years is that life is messy. Tonight we had our first fire hose experience with changing our two week old son's diaper. To say it went several feet and all over everything would be an understatement. But in moments like this you just can't help but laugh. It's not …