” Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. –Erwin Lutzer “
Is it Christmas???
It's the afternoon of December 20th. Christmas is 5 days away.... so technically 4 more days until Christmas. Have I done any shopping? No. Have I sung any familiar Christmas hymns in church? No. Have I done any holiday baking? No. Have I seen any Christmas...
Market Day
Tuesday is market day in our house. There's nothing really special about why Tuesday is the market day other than the largest deliveries of fresh produce arrive on Tuesday and Friday mornings at the market that I shop at. Of course, when I say "market", I don't mean...
Traditional Midwives…
I'm not sure of the number of traditional midwives here in Madagascar but I know there's a good number of them. These women have no formal training but rather their knowledge has been passed down from older generations. Dadan'i Sisy, pictured here with her youngest...
O Holy Night
This is a guest post from Tara Livesay. Tara is a gifted writer, a fellow worker and soon-to-be midwife doing what we're getting ready to do in terms of providing maternity care to some of the "least of these". Tara and her family live and work in Haiti with...
A sickness and a prayer…
You may have read about our doozy of a Thanksgiving last week... if not, my last post will give you the back story. I was sick. Sick as a dog. 5 full days of raging fever, intense body aches, and extreme fatigue... and that's all. No respiratory symptoms, no GI...
Holiday Doozies
Celebrating major American holidays and living in Madagascar somehow just don't go together very well... or maybe we just haven't found our groove with them just yet. In fact, the last 4 holidays we've celebrated in Madagascar have been doozies... starting with...





