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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

To live is Christ

“To live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). Paul’s words help us stay the course. In life. And death.

October 2000. The phone rang at our home in Virginia.

A friend living in Karachi was calling. 

“Ed is in very serious condition. Please pray.” 

To live is Christ and to die is gain. Image by Syed Auon Abbas on Unsplash
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Speechless

Deathly pale in light of the vision. No strength. 

Alone and overwhelmed to the point of exhaustion, Daniel drops. Face to the ground. 

Powerless. Speechless. Unable to breathe.

And the Lord responds to His servant. With tenderness and strength.

Speechless. Image by Mads Schmidt Rasmussen.
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Devotional Memoir

Complicated grief

Some days, when it can’t get any worse, it does. Leading to a complicated grief.

This tangled story of deception is not ours alone. 

No. All along the darkening path, we meet others who know. And understand.

Complicated grief. Image by Adrian Swancar on Unsplash.