I’ve begun this journey through a book entitled, The Artist’s Way. I think I enjoy spiritual direction as much as I do because to me, it’s an art form – there is creativity, wonder, and many colors in navigating and noticing my own and other’s relationship and journey with God. I’m currently working on a…
Category: Ponderings
The 5 Days of Christmas
We got home yesterday from five days in Vancouver, hence the 5 days of Christmas. How was Christmas? Well, my mom broke her wrist, had to have surgery, went home on Christmas day. Nate got a fever and had diarrhea for four days. What else? Our kids had wonderful attitudes, were kind, thankful, helpful, laughed…
Golden leaves and cassoulet
God talks to me through golden leaves and cassoulet. When I walk around greenlake these days I continue to be struck by the beauty of the golden leaves, breathtaking. They speak to me of Gods’ goodness, glory and presence. For those of you who have never eaten cassoulet, it is a french meat and bean…
Farewell green card carrying resident alien
I am now officially a United States citizen. Wahoo !!!! Sound the trumpet, clap loudly, sing alot, shout, jump up and down, do a little shimmy, shake a little booty……..have a celebration!!! I handed over my green card today and said goodbye to my resident alien status. I was moved today in my swearing in…
Home
Dave and I arrived safely home yesterday afternoon. I’ve been reading this book, “The Cloister Walk” and something that the author wrote struck me in particular in regards to my experience in India. The author was referring to her time spent in a monastery, but it struck me as relevant to my time away. In…
Village visits outside of Hyderabad
Yesterday afternoon and this morning we went in groups to visit villages 2 hours outside of Hyderabad where Unitus’s partner MFI (micro finance institution, SKS) serves clients. Clients are woman who live in the villages who collectively gather in groups of five to collect and receive loans. They recieve the loans and hold each other…
Snippets from India
I am seeing and experiencing so much that I’ve decided this evening, in Hyderabad, to jot down what I call “snippets from India”, basically some highs and lows and wonderings for me in the past couple of days. – arriving at the airport tonight from Bangalore to Hyderabad and stepping, without previously noticing, into a…
Another day in Bangalore, India
>Today was a very fun and interesting day, full off many mini movies in my mind and so much to write about that I’ll just pick a few. This morning Dave, myself, Vikas (lives her and works for Unitus here in Bangalore), Jayme (Unitus, Wa employee) Claire (unitus board member) and his wife, Nancy all…
Bangalore, India
There are so many people here in Bangalore: walking, riding motorcycles, in buses, on ox carts, wandering around, on scooters, walking in and out of traffic, sounding their horns, trying to sell stuff. There is alot of poverty – slums on the sides of the road, people living under off ramps, families living in broken…
The follow up on Poop
Just because your children get older doesn’t mean that as a parent you become less involved with their bodily functions, in this case, “poop”. I had Becca back at the doctors this morning as the stool sample came back negative, which was good, but she has still been having stomach aches. After a chat with…
Collecting Stool Samples
Yes, what you read in the title, is the truth of the matter (no pun intended). Oh, the small and interesting joys of parenting. Becca, our 11 year old daughter, has been having on and off stomach pain for the past couple of weeks. The doctor sent Dave home with a “stool sample collecting kit”…
Gwyneth Sharon Febus
What an amazing experience, watching Gwyneth Sharon Febus’s birth. She arrived at 10:50 pm, Thursday, September 1. She weighed 8 lbs. 2 oz and is 21 inches long, all healthy, pink, lots of hair, and so darn beautiful and cute. I started to cry when Beth and Jeremy told me her name. It’s truly an…
Sharon Richards 