I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise will continually be in my mouth.My soul makes its boast in the Lord;let the humble hear and be glad!Oh, magnify the Lord with me,and let us exalt His nam...
April 2011 Sometimes my 16 passenger van and I clamor down the driveway and I think that I will get out and life will be easy. That 14 daughters will greet me laughingly at the gate and there will th...
Tonight marked one year since the day Makerere stumbled into my yard with his leg charred to the bone. To remember ho far God has carried us, we had a little celebration. We celebrated healed legs an...
November “You are right.” He says. I look up into the shy smile I have grown to love so much. Day 178 of bandaging this wound, and it is almost gone. Makerere is not one to strike up conversation usu...
over here again. humbled. Can you imagine the stench? Joseph has walked and Mary ridden 90 miles in the scorching sun, the wind whipping around their faces and caking them with dust from the dirt roa...
I really am going to start publicly sharing His 2011 miracles soon (you know, one day, when there is a calm season... ;) ) In the mean time, I am blessed to be guest posting here today.. One of my ve...
“I just want to remember,” she says matter-of-factly, and she pulls the covers right back up over her head. It is well after our 8 o’clock bed time. I have been sunk deep in the couch and in the Word...
Merry Christmas!Praising our Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace!incredible photos by Mandie Joy
Tonight, I rock a baby who is not mine. For the fifth time this year, we have a foster-baby. I snuggle her close and gaze into her eyes as I feed her a bottle and sing Jesus over her. I kiss her fore...
The last few weeks have been so full of God’s blessings and extravagant surprises. Every day another gift, beautiful and unexpected. I feel spoiled rotten by the God of the universe, His love just to...
It is after midnight and I lay her in yet another new bed in another new place. Strangers-turned-friends have opened their home up to us, the wanderers, during this quick trip throughout the United S...
Rummaging through our box of paperwork, I find it and it hits me unexpected. Her birth certificate, the one her birth mom stuffed in her bag as she sent her off to a “better life” at her uncle’s when...
Today I look around and my breath catches in my throat. Surely I should take off my shoes. Or fall to my knees. Or raise up my hands. Surely this moment is holy. Not because of anything spectacular. ...
“I thought that if she was just going to die anyway, I should let her die quickly. Then I wouldn’t have to love her, and it wouldn’t have to hurt. Anyway, if she lives, she’ll just grow up to be like...
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come buy and eat... Listen to me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare..You will go out...
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold togetherColossians 1:17
“There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.” - Fredrick Buechnerlaying low.learning lots.tha...
Around here, we live bent low. Tuesday morning ladies from Masese stream through my front door. We have moved our weekly meeting from the slum of Masese to my living room because I have been up all n...
This week. Mothers had their babies blown from their arms, the storm too strong. Others clung tight as their infants breathed their last in my best friends back seat, blood transfusions and machine-o...
I can see the women with their eyes wide as they tremble in front of the empty tomb.They listen to the angels words – can it be? - and they scurry, terrified and full of joy.Terrified and full of joy...
I can see the women with their eyes wide open as they tremble in front of the tomb.They listen to the angels words – can it be? - and they scurry, terrified and full of joy.Terrified and full of joy ...
“I don’t want to do this,” I half scream at her, half plead to God. “I don’t want to walk this path, I don’t want to be this person, I don’t want to raise this daughter who doesn’t know who she belon...
Tuesday at 2 they stream through the gate. Free clinic for the slum community of Masese, in my front yard. Amazima Ministries is working hard with your help to bring long, term, sustainable change in...
On Tuesday, I will go to court to finalize the adoptions of Sumini, Zuula, Tibita and Grace. I have been asigned court dates for almost all of my daughters but these four are the first to go to court...
I stand at my laptop in its corner on the kitchen counter, stew bubbling, children playing, clock ticking. I stand here and I read the prayers of friends and strangers alike who love my family enough...
Wishing with all my heart right now that the internet was not the internet and was a safer place for me to share the specific cries of my heart. Right now though, we are just asking for prayer. I am ...
“I am so old. My whole body hurts. I have suffered much,” her eyes shine with joy as she speaks, “oh, I am suffering. But whatever He wants. Whatever God wants!” And she laughs and she laughs. We sit...
“Jesus! Mama, baby Jesus! I want to see! I want to see Jesus!,” shrieks my littlest darling. How can I refuse? I lift her, for what seems like the hundredth time this morning, to the manger scene on ...
“Mommmyyyy!” I heard a yell as I bounced quickly along the pitted road that leads to our program in my 16-passenger van. I stopped quickly, turning the van around to go back for Prossy who had been w...
We loved a lot...and we laughed a lot.We had the privilege of teaching people about our Savior, Jesus!Amazima began work on the new fellowship site. It is now complete with toilets, a kitchen, a chap...
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