Darkness filled every part of my being for what felt like months. Hope had disappeared and I wasn’t sure I would make it. I know this sounds dramatic but a loss of one’s faith is just that, dramatic. There is immense pain in deconstruction. We don’t suddenly on a whim think, “gee you know what would be fun? To walk…
***Not My Typical Blog Post*** I don’t even know where to begin. This may be messy. I have wrestled for months on whether I should write anything at all about this but the more I hold it in the more it burns. I will say now that this blog post will contain the hard topic of child sexual abuse. This…
Leading into our outreach Turkey was the place I was most excited about, I had wanted to go to Istanbul for a number of years, I was eager to see history come alive as we were in this ancient city. For days the song “Istanbul” by The Four Lads played over and over in my head, “So if you’ve a…