So Yesenia is away for the week translating for a mission team in another part of Guatemala. It’s the first week I’ve been home alone since we were married almost 18 months ago. Hopes were high that I would get a lot of writing done this week, but I can’t seem to get rolling. Mostly I spend my time trying to remember how to be alone. Then I realized that today’s date is November 11, (11/11), also known as “Singles Day” in many parts of the world. It is the opposite of Valenti

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went across to Capernaum to look for him. –John 6:24 (NLT) “I gotta tell you something!!!” His excitement took me by surprise. This was someone who once nonchalantly mentioned he was getting married in the middle of a conversation about traffic. “I went to the (big evangelical preacher’s) renewal event last night. His message was great! And at the end, I stood up and accepted

In June of 2010, I was ready to work some magic with a short-term mission team in Guatemala. God performed several little miracles to bring me here. It was obviously because He knew these people needed what I had to offer. I was destined to save Guatemala. Little did I know, Guatemala was about to save me! The normally lush mountains surrounding San Lucas Toliman were striped with the shiny, brown ribbons of recent mudslides. It was obvious that the hurricane had not spared t