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Below is a poem that I wrote as I sat with God in the morning during one of my first days serving in Thailand summer of 2025. God beckoned me to Thailand as a place where He began to untangle me from chains of slavery as I joined the faithful work of His servants reaching out to women enslaved in prostitution, calling out with the hope of Truth, the Redeemer who came among us to set us free! The Word who spoke in the beginning, Creation's cause, now wailing a babe's vulnerable cry. Sustainer of life now laid out as an offering, body broken as bread. Roaring Lion who made earth tremble now wrapped, protected and prepared, as Lamb for sacrifice. Infinite God wearing limitation and lack. He who breathed life into mankind brought to gasp for air smelling of dung. Unwelcomed, no room, for the Rescuer come to redeem children into the Kingdom. Deep calls to deep grasping for words to worship; O! no tongue can capture this mraculous humble heart. So the Word came among us. He gave all,...
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Lament for Life

  Pregnant. She clutched her abdomen, reeling as a known reality collapsed under the forces of a thousand questions she never knew to exist. Fear, anxiety, wonder, awe, terror, curiosity; she staggered under the weight of possibilities and conversations rushing upon her, an ambush breaking loose. Aware of her body like never before, she considered the occupant within her. A baby? A thing? Never before had the choice of terminology thrown her into crisis. If declaring it a problem, she must seek resolution. But if a life... could she carry a child with tender love and fierce devotion to responsibility? What if she carried the infant for a few months, found herself irreversibly attached yet confronted with glaring reality of her own inability to parent? No, this must be an "it"- an intangible nuisance. Agonized, she shuddered in her soul. What if she was terribly wrong? ............. Creator of the universe, we gather to lament for mothers crying alone, wondering in the anguish...
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Ethiopia

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Long overdue, I want to invite you to a walk-through of the time God allowed me to spend in Ethiopia this summer! Over a year before, in May of 2024, my sister called me while I was on outreach with Youth with a Mission. She told me that our dad's Ethiopian coworker, Zemen, wanted us to pray about coming the following summer to help them teach English over the school break. As we prayed, God made a way for Grace, Michelle (a young woman from my church in Chicago), and I to teach English in Salutta, Ethiopia for two weeks. Michelle and I arrived first. Zemen and his nine-year-old daughter, Kaku, brought us to breakfast before driving us to the ministry center in Salutta, about an hour's drive outside of the capital. Kaku began teaching us Amharic the moment we got the in car! The new ministry center in Salutta. We spent our first few nights here as we prepared to teach. The view from Grace and I's third floor room. The Lord is full of surprises! Grace and I never thought abo...
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