Flores & Faith

  This post is part of our Flores & Faith devotional series, a gathering of original devotional material.  Each devotion will be published in both english & spanish.  | Esta publicación es parte de nuestra serie devocional en Flores & Fe, una recopilación de material devocional original. Cada devoción estará disponible en inglés y español. Day People (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11) For you are all children of light ... since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. (5:5a, 8) Are you an early bird or a night owl? We all have preferences; some of us prefer to stay up late, while others love waking up early. For some, the darkness brings fear and seeing just a small glimmer of light brings a sense of releif and hope. This text from Paul reminds us of our true hope -- we can rest in the fact that we are children of light, the light of the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This trut...

This post is part of our Flores & Faith devotional series, a gathering of original devotional material.  Each devotion will be published in both english & spanish.  | Esta publicación es parte de nuestra serie devocional en Flores & Fe, una recopilación de material devocional original. Cada devoción estará disponible en inglés y español. Lift Your Eyes Psalm 121:1-2 I lift my eyes to the hills, from where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Too often it is easy for me to relate to the psalmist in Psalm 42 and ask myself, "Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?" (42:5). Too often my eyes are cast down and I focus inward on my own problems, big or small. Have you ever felt that way? In Psalm 121, we can join with the psalmist and be reminded to lift our eyes up - from our troubles, ilnesses, guilts, grief . . . In lifting our eyes to the hills we are reminded that our " help comes from t...

I’m coming up on my six year anniversary of deploying to the mission field (January 24th). Looking back on six years can be overwhelming. A simple reflection leads to reminders of all of the things that God has done, all of the ways I have grown, all of the battles, all of the hard seasons, & all of the joys and blessings! To think back to this time six years ago, I was in a season of waiting. Waiting for paperwork to process. Waiting for the missions’ “greenlight” that my support network was strong enough to deploy. Waiting. The irony is not lost on me that six years later, Rafa and I find ourselves in much of the same place. Waiting. So much has changed, but a lot stays the same. We find ourselves in another season of waiting. Waiting for paperwork to process. Waiting for the national church of Chile to say it is time to come. Waiting to start the next chapter of our life together. In a lot of ways, it feels that we have been waiting for this move to Chile since we started dating...