March 2012 – The Way Home

To Romania We Go!

Spring is in the air in Kandern, as I sit with wide open windows on the last Wednesday night before Spring Break. This means that in three short days, I’ll be heading to Oradea, Romania with a team of 14 students and six leaders, where we’ll build three apartment homes for Adrian, Valerie and Maria,…

A New Square Inch

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15 I’m sitting near the back of the auditorium on Friday afternoon, again looking over the tops of my students’ heads as the Chapel speaker weaves to the front of the room, carrying a microphone. After a few words of introduction he begins…

Askew

But Mouse, you are not alone,  In proving foresight may be vain:  The best laid schemes of mice and men  Go often askew,  And leaves us nothing but grief and pain,  For promised joy!   Robert Burns, from “To A Mouse” In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed. …

Now I Know in Part

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” I Corinthians 13:12 From the back of the gym, I look over a sea of heads to the stage, where our speaker for…