a scribble of jo

where to?

Year: 2013

  • downcast

        I feel emptied, like I don’t have enough of what this life requires. What do you want, you big ol’ bully? I wake up this morning knowing I’ve got a food shopping to do, a big week to prepare for at school. I was absent on Thursday and Friday, so this is the…

  • tired body, tuckered spirit

    I woke up this morning     t     i     r     e     d. My body felt the weight of ten sleepless nights, and I couldn’t understand how this was possible in light of the nine hours that had passed since last closing my eyes. I stumbled to the kitchen and managed to manipulate a coffee…

  • changes coming

    Not sure how to process all of the changes coming around the corner. . . What course of action does wisdom call for? What steps does faith require one to take? Friday morning I received notice that, as of September 2013, the Alliance Academy will no longer be able to pay salaries through international missionary…

  • a walk home

    I like to walk to school. Whether it’s raining or overcast or just downright foggy as mud, I like to walk to school. Walking home, on the other hand, is a completely different matter. First of all, the walk home is uphill. Second of all, the walk home gradually becomes steeper. Third of all, I’m…

  • kith and kin

    Dearest friends, those kindred spirits, they ease the passage through the darkest waters. Yes, days or weeks or months may pass before we warm our hands over the same fire, but it is a destination worth every minute that leads us there. I’m not privy to that which lasts. When I leave a place, I…