yesterday i became too aware of the amount of time ive been spending in isolation lately.two-and-a-half weeks ago i started doing temp-work at a healthcare company. the people there are lovely, the j...
26 days ago i got laid off from my job. (cant believe its been that long.)it was a mix of emotions. first disbelief & sadness, followed by a strange feeling of peace & freedom. since then, it...
i have always loved the distinct smell of my gramma jane. & tonight smells like her. i dont know why. i cant seem to rid my nose & brain of her scent (nor do i want to).i remember the day of ...
its been awhile.this month ive joined some roommates & friends in unplug & cuddle. no facebook, less wasted time, more real life interaction!ive been enjoying spending time with people in rea...
a few weeks ago, i started reading some journal entries that i was writing this time last year. my first journal entry, from the wee hours of the morning of august 16, is about the excitement & a...
why do i so often, without even thinking (or even sometimes at times when i take a second to think things through), say things i dont mean? for some reason, in the moments when so much more could be ...
i have a million things in my mind and not enough free time in a day to adequately process them. i think this post might just be an outpouring of the feelings in my heart and the thoughts in my head....
i feel like my fiftieth blog post should be something extraordinary. it wont be.im sitting at panera bread, grabbing a quick dinner between commitments.evidently, fridays here mean chess night for a ...
i havent written in nearly three months.whoops.
(surprise!) ive been thinking about uganda the past few days.thursday night, i had a dream that i saw some of the kids. i remember seeing norbert. he said to me, "irene, i have been missing you s...
oh, i was not created to spend eight hours a day in a grey cubicle.dont get me wrong, I LOVE MY JOB. i love what i do, i love who i work with, i feel incredibly blessed to be a part of the thirty-one...
processing more and more.since being back in columbus, i started going to a new small group. it (conveniently) meets at my house monday nights. three of my roommates attend/lead the group. i had been...
(im processing things. this is part one of i dont know how many. and it might end abruptly, but because im not finished processing, i dont really want this to resolve at the end.)how do you put into ...
sorry its been more than a month. i keep writing the beginnings of the "im home and this is what happened" blog, but i am unsure of 1. where to begin 2. what to say 3. how to say it.
(i wrote this my tuesday night... internet pooped out just before posting, so here it is a few hours late.)yesterday morning we said a tearful goodbye to 67 dear friends.i woke up at 7am to find out ...
i have a post written up and photos ready to go for a blog about our ugandan thanksgiving. but, this is africa & our internet isnt cooperating today. the images wont upload. maybe there will be a...
this is home. (i apologize for writing a blog with song lyrics. i know that, potentially, this could be really cheesy. but i dont care, its how i feel.)more and more in my life, ive been learning tha...
tuesday with the boys & a conversation with fredtuesday, brynn & i spent a significant amount of our day hanging out with some of the boys at grace. they invited us to stay for dinner, not gi...
"but because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved." eph 2.4-5ive never r...
ever since i can remember, my parents have always told me that they love me more than words could ever express. i understood in my mind what that must have meant, but now i think i understand in my h...
today i dont know what to write about. so im going to go through my journal and tell you about a few of the little things that maybe arent so exciting but what make life here really really great.in t...
i kind of have two blogs in one. i hope thats not excessive.thought no.1: what im learning"a wonderful thing about Gods silence is that His stillness is contagious--it gets into you." -oswald...
ive been trying to figure out what to write about. but when youre just living life, its hard to figure out whats worth telling.after writing those first two sentences, i took a seven hour break. i ca...
i apologize for the lack of blog this week. the internet has been down, & frankly, i have been having more fun living life with these kids than trying to write about how much i love living life w...
life is beautiful.yesterday, i seriously contemplated the idea of writing a blog with only those three words. that is how i feel. as i thought about it, though, i thought maybe it wasnt a fair blog t...
life in masindi this is home. the entrance to VOH is at the bottom right of the map. where the yellow road begins at the bottom is about where the boar hole (the well) is.the three buildings furthest...
ive woken up the last two mornings to the sound of children singing (and sometimes a rooster cock-a-doodle-doo-ing).saturda y afternoon we moved to masindi. we are now living at the village with the c...
hours after posting my last blog, we learned that our time in gulu isnt as close to being over as we had anticipated. weve been working on sponsorship things for the kids in the camps--taking their p...
weve been in uganda for almost two weeks now. im losing track of time and i love it. i know what time it is when i wake up in the morning and i know what time it is when i go to bed at night. i lose ...
its crazy to think that only nine days ago we began this journey together. it feels like its been so much longer than that. it feels like ive spent a short lifetime with these people. i like it.our h...
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