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I Will Not Forget…

   I am eternally an optimist. I usually skip through life seeing and believing the best about everyone and everything. The same is true for me here in Nicaragua. Yes, I am surrounded by overwhelming poverty and brokenness, but what…

Encountering Hope

    My last blog post, “Difficult Realities” I was grappling with the harsh realities of this world alongside our unshakable hope in eternity. It’s still something I grapple with everyday. What are the thing that I can change and the…

Difficult Realities

   Poverty kills. This is a hard truth to swallow, but, regardless of the difficulty, it remains true. When you enter into life in a 3rd world country, life expectancy drops drastically. Unsanitary living conditions, no access to clean water,…

A Year Without Pena

    This weekend we celebrated my lovely friend, Gema’s, quincenera. For those of you who are not familiar with Latin culture, the quincenera is the 15th birthday celebration for girls. It is a HUGE ordeal. I would most closely related…

Drawn to our Knees

“In essence there is only one thing God asks of us- that we become men and women of prayer, people who live close to God, for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough.â€� —Brennan Manning, The Ragmuffin…