Mar 24, 2019 | Thinking About Life
In January I travelled to Nepal with a group of amazing women (and one amazing man) to see the work of Baptist World Aid and their partner NGO, United Mission to Nepal (UMN). We travelled for 8 days through rural Nepal and visited some inspiring women and children who...
Jan 12, 2019 | Thinking About Life
Sometimes this thing happens in my life where I learn a new word or concept, hear about a new person, or restaurant or book, and then suddenly, I’m seeing that thing everywhere. It happened this way when we bought a Kia Carnival. I’m sure there were approximately zero...
Jan 5, 2019 | Thinking About Life
Flashback to October, 2018: Me to my friend, Jamin: “The new screen time app says I’ve been on my phone for five hours.” Jamin: “Yeh, that’s probably right.” Me: “Nah, that can’t be right. I have hardly used my phone today…” Me, via text the next day: Jamin! I think...
Dec 29, 2018 | Thinking About God, Thinking About Life
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. -Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander...
Dec 21, 2018 | Thinking About Life
I’m heading into the Christmas season with a little more Yvette hanging around than I’m traditionally comfortable with, and because my Fit-by-40 campaign has to start sometime, I’ve come up with some strategies for tackling all the festive season eating… So here’s my...
Dec 17, 2018 | Thinking About Life
The traffic was building up at a set of lights that normally move quickly. I sat in the line and waited for a long time before giving up and changing lanes. Surely there was a break down causing the delay? The other lane would take me on an alternate route home. As I...
