Originally written September, 2012: Kyiv, Day 1: Today interviewing supervisors from all over Ukraine came to Kyiv for training. Some traveled as long as 8 hours by train. Surprisingly, I was able to follow a lot of the discussion in Russian, when I wasn’t day dreaming about the Tower of Babel anyway. For lunch, we […]
Why I Don’t Unfriend People Over Political Ideology
It took an insurrection for some, but I’ve seen clear lines drawn in the sand on social media – culling of friend lists and declarations for people to unfriend them if they don’t like what they have to say about politics (particularly the current President of the United States.) I get it. There is a […]
Blind Loyalty is Idolatry
There is security in zealotry. It feels good to belong and feel like you’re on the right side of something, a scrappy minority fighting for good against evil. When you find yourself defending and believing whatever your leader says, take heed, blind loyalty to any person or organization is idolatry. Zealotry can be blinding and […]
One Sunday in London
I hurried down the rain-soaked streets of London, wearing absolutely the wrong shoes for it and pulling along my overstuffed suitcase with the broken handle. It was 7:30am on a cold Sunday in March – just before the COVID-19 pandemic sent the world, and my European travel, into a tailspin. I had taken the tube […]
SPEAK, Even If Your Voice Shakes
I’ve never picked a word for the year before. Maybe it is knowing that my late, dear friend Becky did this. (Her word for 2018 was “abide”– and now she is abiding with the living GOD.) Maybe I just need the accountability, but when I thought and prayed about a word – one came LOUD […]
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