When you become bicultural. (And not by birth.)

Now, I know we have only been in an Indian culture for a little over four months, but is it fair enough to say that we feel a little more Indian everyday? (And feel it even more when you return to your heart culture.) We landed a little over a week ago back on American...

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Man Shall Not Live On Bread Alone...

What does fasting look like in our day and age? Have you ever fasted? From what? Food, media, people? In the past few weeks, I’ve felt like God was calling me to fast. I have fasted from food only once before, one year ago, and it was for several days with a community of people. BUT, Let me be honest. The first time I fasted in this country, it did not go over very well. I was tired, HUNGRY, weak, and kind of out of it. I intended to...

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6 adjustments one makes in the first 24 hours of moving to a foreign country

1. Stoplights are optional. As we rode in a taxi from the airport to our apartment at two in the morning, we watched our driver float between lanes, most of the time preferring to straddle the car on the dotted lines. Then as we pulled up to a stoplight and sat there for about a minute, another car came zooming past us through the stoplight. That’s when our driver decided the stoplight was no longer useful. So sure enough,...

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Taking It All In: A "5 Sense" Tour of Houston

As we prepare to leave Houston, I look back at some of the pictures of our experiences here. Wanna take a quick tour of Houston with me? Normally when you go to a baseball game, you dress to sweat. So did we, and boy were we surprised when we stepped into an INDOOR baseball stadium, air-conditioned...

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A Plea For Modesty

Through our different experiences with people of all different cultures and religions, I have decided that Christians in America have really missed the mark when it comes to modesty and holding the purity of women as a priority. I feel like American Christianity sometimes even looks down on radical modesty (think the Mennonites).   This is something we have learned to really value in lots of other cultures and religions...

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Hammers, Refugees, and Baby Rabbits: Picture Blogging One Year of Marriage

As Grayson and I are nearing our ONE YEAR wedding anniversary, it makes me think of the fun random things that we get to experience together. Here is a 12 month picture log of our first year together (including the five different houses the Luthers called home this year). May: Wedding and Honeymooning...

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Seven Bed Sojourners

What makes you feel like you’re home? Your bed? Your kitchen? The old, comfy recliner where you take naps and watch TV? Or is it the smell? We’ve been thinking about all these things as we’ve been moving around all over during this transition time. What we thought was going to be a short stay at each parents’ houses before we left for India has turned into sleeping in 7 different beds in 3 months. (Talk about messing up your sleep cycle). The...

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What Is FAITH?

   One of the things that the Lord has been teaching me as we are preparing to leave and patiently waiting on the Lord’s provision is about Faith. Most of us say we have Faith in something but the Lord has been revealing to me a much fuller understanding of the word. Much of it was summed up in the main verse from a church service a few weeks ago. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not...

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Roadtrippin' Adventures

So Grayson and I have been traveling around Mississippi and Arkansas for the last several weeks. We love adventures! Hope y’all enjoy some of these pictures of our adventure. We started out in Amory, MS (where Grayson was a youth minister for several years). Visiting with friends, baking half-baked...

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