Still more girl than woman, she works quietly, organizing the shelves at Kroger, our local grocery store. It’d be easy for anyone to walk past her and not even notice her there. But for me, she’s brighter than anyone else…

Overwhelmed. Anxious. Insecure. Unstable.  These are the words I have most commonly used to describe how I’ve been feeling the past couple weeks. My season at CGA is very quickly winding down, there’s a lot of projects and work to…

I don’t know where it originally came from, but there’s a metaphor sometimes used around the office here at Adventures in Missions.  Basically, it’s this idea that there are two different types of people:  Whales. Dolphins. Whales are people who…

Spring has arrived in Georgia!!!  Which means a few things. 1) It’s warm, but the humidity isn’t here yet. Yes!! 2) There’s SUNSHINE. So much sunshine. 3) Daylight Saving Time = extra hours of sun in the evening.    Joy…

It’s been nice and sunny and around 70 degrees here the past couple weeks in Georgia. Except for last Thursday… Last Thursday, it was 40 degrees and forecasted to rain in the afternoon. Want to know what it did instead?  IT…

…a little more about me! 🙂     For a fun activity the other week, I needed to think of some little-known facts about myself for CGA.    As I sat and tried to answer the question, “What don’t people…

Love. The idea of it was tainted for me starting at a young age. Many of you know this and many of you don’t: I was sexually abused by my older stepbrother as a little girl from around the ages…

I’m in the middle of a hard season currently. It’s good and growing and full of healing…but it’s also painful and difficult and simply not fun at times.  As this new semester starts, I’ve prayed a lot into it and…

January has been a month of “waiting” around for a new semester of CGA to start. The 29th, exactly one week ago, 21 new CGA apprentices came to join the eight of us returning for the start of a new…