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when parents become people.

  It is an odd moment when your parent or parents become people. You’re probably thinking they have been people all along, right? Yes, they have been. But for the past seven or eight years of my life my dad…

eventually…

  Somewhere in Alabama, inside a Starbucks within a Target I asked the nice woman “Excuse me, but where (I hesitate)… where are we?” It took me about fifteen hours to drive from Longview, Texas to Gainesville, Georgia. I drove…

Housing six men.

My last shift was spent housing six men. Three from Nigeria and three from Iraq. Housing new arrivals became one of my favorite and hardest things to do. The process is challenging because I am supposed to find a person…

coming home.

I am sitting on the plane and have already “ugly” cried too many times. Tonight I left Lesvos. I left the friends that I have come to love over the past two months. Right now I can’t explain all the emotions that…

Life jackets of every size.

I stood before thousands of life jackets and became silent. My heart felt heavy with sadness and broken with disbelief. Hundreds of thousands of life jackets. Each containing a life and a story. Looking down at the ground I saw jackets of…

About me.

Hi guys, welcome to my blog!  Last year I went on an eleven month mission trip to eleven different countries. I went on this trip with an organization called Adventures in Missions and in May I will be moving to…