• Family at Farmhouse

    A Taste of Home Away from Home There are some places you just love to visit. Grandma and Grandpa’s house, where there’s usually something sweet in the cupboard, and they are so glad to see you. Your best friend’s house where the chaos of kids and chatter don’t matter because…

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  • Birthday Musings

    Yesterday was my 55th Birthday. Six days ago, I completed a self-challenge while in England. I climbed to the top of St. Paul’s cathedral. 528 steps from the cathedral floor – 365 feet. Plus steps to and from the crypt at 111 total. Add 24 giant steps from the street…

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  • Freedom

    “Freedom isn’t free.” Like most Americans, I know this statement to be true. My family roots in this nation run deep. Both my maternal and paternal ancestors came to the Americans in the 1750’s. Roorks were in the Philadelphia Militia of the Revolutionary War. Wilson’s fought in the Carolina’s. They…

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  • Dads Who Serve

    Cambodia.part 3 Today is Father’s Day. I miss my dad. I miss my father-in-law. I miss my Uncle James. I miss Larry. And Josiah. And Jared, John, Elias. And Mark. And Mark. And Malcolm. And I miss knowing Reid more. And I miss watching Handsome Boy be Handsome Dad. And…

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  • People are People

    God’s Creation in Photos Sent2tell. Asia 2024 My grandfather was a people person. He did not require a class on how to make friends or lessons in communication. It was natural and came from a genuine care for people, their stories and their futures. Recently at a family dinner, we…

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  • A Mission Mom

    Cambodia.part2 Today is Mother’s Day. Social Media feeds will be filled with pictures of people honoring their moms and grieving those they have lost. There will be posts admonishing us to be sensitive the woman who cannot have a child; the woman who has lost a child and the woman…

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  • Cambodia

    Beautifully Complicated Growth. part 1 There are moments in life when the whisper of God is relentless.  It’s often in the midst of chaos and is rarely convenient yet it draws us to be still and listen intently to hear and understand what Father God would teach us.    …

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  • Japan: It’s Complicated.2

    Japan & COWs. This week, meet Susan Mudry – Continuing the long, beautifully complicated history of Women Missionaries in Japan. It was a true blessing and adventure to raise our children in southwest Colorado.  The mountains provided opportunity for exercise, exploration and expanding our kids knowledge of the world around…

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  • Japan – It’s Complicated

    part 1 – It is so complicated that it needs to be digested in small bites.   Each bite allows the reader to think about how this beautifully complicated history compares to their own nation and their own faith and how it affects evangelism in communities today.   This island…

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    If you would like to send Susan Mudry or the Hardricks some love via cards or something on their wish list, do it quickly! Please email me at complicatedhope@gmail.com and I can send you my address. If you just want to send money and have Jill and I do your shopping,…

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Thank you! You have gifted me your most prized possession – time. I hope you enjoy the read. Some laughs, some smiles, some tears and even a few, “mmm-hmmms” too!

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