Photos by Chuck Snyder We just enjoyed a vacation. Spending all day every day in God’s glorious creation was deeply refreshing. It was also a trek of trust. I had steeled myself to trust God with poisonous snakes, which we only saw twice on our hikes. What I had not steeled myself for was the…
When mice got into our home through the wall adjoining our neighbor to the south, but bedbugs did not come through the wall adjoining our neighbor to the north, my gratitude mantra was, “Merciful mice: bigger critters, smaller problems.” There was, however, still the leaking roof, which could not be repaired until warmer weather. The…
There are always challenges to cross-cultural communication. On our flight to the Philippines, no one was getting on or off the scheduled stop in Hawaii, so our pilot decided to skip that late night layover. Consequently, our plane landed in Manila at 1 AM, rather than the planned 4:30 AM arrival. This was before the…
