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Archives for June 2014

Glory-strength in grief

June 30, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Scripture from Colossians 1 (The Message)

Earlier this month, a tragedy struck our community in Managua, when a missionary family lost their nineteen-year-old daughter in a freak accident. She was laying in a hammock strung between two palm trees when one of the trees broke. She fell out of the hammock and hit her head on a concrete block nearby. She […]

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What’s next for us in Nica?

June 25, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Great things never come from comfort zones

Somehow I’ve known this day would come, even though I really hoped it wouldn’t. When we first felt God asking us to spend more than a week in Nicaragua, we wondered how we would make it happen financially. “We absolutely can not ask people to give us money,” was my answer. My husband didn’t want […]

Filed Under: + Adoption Care ·

Homemade-fake Maple Syrup

June 20, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Homemade-fake Maple Syrup

I’m running a guesthouse (for adopting families) and I like to cook. This translates into pancakes and bacon a lot of mornings, which means I bring out the big guns: my jar of homemade syrup. It doesn’t take too many bites of syrup-laden pancake before someone finally asks, “so you really make your own maple […]

Filed Under: + In My Kitchen · Tagged With: homemade-fake, recipe, syrup

Site goals

June 18, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

Fix my eyes on you from King and Country

My husband loves to say that you have to be a little bit crazy to sell your stuff and move to another country, and if you’re doing it because God told you to, then you’re definitely a bit off your rocker. We don’t mind being placed in that category. And we absolutely love the other […]

Filed Under: + Parenting, + Through My Earbuds, + Why are we here? ·

The Great Unanswerable

June 16, 2014 By Wendy Willard · Leave a Comment ·

I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Job 42:2

The following was originally posted in 2013, two weeks before a young friend died of cancer. Heaven gained another young woman this past weekend, when a missionary family here in Nicaragua lost their daughter in a freak accident. God used the situation to remind me of His challenge last fall and that it is still […]

Filed Under: + Craving Justice, Faith & Culture · Tagged With: cancer, death, prayer

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