Josh, an 18-year old senior at Black Forest Academy, was home in Italy with his 4-year old brother, Sam. (Pictured below) They were sitting on the balcony one night, looking up at the stars, and Sam was saying the cutest things. Josh listened and smiled, content to be sitting under the Italian sky, spending time […]
Hypocrisy is a topic we don’t like to address in the missionary community, mostly because of the unspoken lie that a little bit of deception can be good for ministry. Deception by omission, mind you. The harmless, distant cousin of outright hypocrisy. Where does “putting your best foot forward” end and “misrepresenting yourself” begin? Where […]
With the start of a new year comes the renewal of my passion to be an advocate for MKs and missionaries. To that end, I’d like to begin a series of posts (which may not be sequential) entitled “The Lies MKs Believe.” My hope is that it will shed some light on behaviors that can […]
Bear with me−there’s going to be a gloriously profound conclusion to this post… I’m not sure how we got on the topic. One minute, I was the teacher listening to students talking in the back seat of my car, waiting for a conversational opening that would allow me to pounce, all cheetah-like, on an innocent […]
Looking for a post about goofy Christmas memories and yuletide merriment? I’m afraid you’ve come to the wrong blog this time. I’m a big fan of Christmas—always have been. Even as I write, safely tucked into the armchair in my mom’s Canadian living room, listening to classical music and the crackling logs in the fireplace […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) I’m a good little MK, which means that my understanding of American football is slim. When I was in high school in Germany, before the days of home satellite TVs and the internet, my […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) It was about this time last year that I wrote a blog bemoaning my “Single Girl’s Tree,” a Christmas tree so neat, symmetrical and sterile that it seemed as foreign to my life as, […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) (For those of you waiting for my decision on the life-altering dilemma facing me, I’m afraid you’re going to have to wait one more week! Your prayers and input have meant the world to […]
[NOTE: You can now subscribe to this blog by sending an email to michelesblog@gmail.com and writing “Subscribe” in the subject line.) My purpose in writing these blog entries varies from week to week. Sometimes, I post them merely for entertainment value. Sometimes I have a point to make or a question to ask. Mostly, I […]
It’s a common theory that a woman’s voice matures around 30 years of age. That puts mine well past its expiration date, and I live in fear of becoming the lady who used to sit behind me in church and sing “Just As I Am” with so much warbling vigor that her vibrato covered an […]