Day Eight

Jumping on a plane with four kids for a month is a sight to see. People must be able to feel the intensity of the parents as Carie and I think through all the details it takes for such an adventure, t...

11 Kesä 20194min

This got me thinking that everyone’s “Amazing” is someone else’s hard work. That movie that you loved and saw on IMAX last weekend? Someone’s Hard work. That painting in the museum that brought you to...

13 Touko 20196min

I love Mondays!I guess I’m thinking through perspective today. Their Mondays seem dreadfully easy, yet they still dread them. In the U.S., they are much longer and we still wake up wondering why it ha...

13 Touko 20195min

The music started playing, the worship leader beckoned everyone to get to their feet (in Spanish of course), and the female singer started belting out a Hillsong tune called “Not Today”. A familiar en...

5 Touko 20195min

I’m sure there are a ton of differences between the American culture and the Spanish (and in particular Valencia) culture, but I wanted to share a few of the glaring ones I noticed this week.

29 Huhti 20194min

Wonder leads to knowledge and then knowledge leads to wisdom. Unfortunately stale wisdom leads to the lack of wonder. It leads to control. Nothing keeps us from understanding how small we are like hav...

22 Huhti 20195min

Sitting in a huge city like Valencia Spain and soaking in days at the beach with my family, I realized that what I was doing on an administrative level was so insignificant, I basically lied to myself...

16 Huhti 20195min