New Blog Announcement

Please allow me to introduce to you...my new blog!

Perspectives from Peru

This new blog is strictly for the purpose of providing people with updates about my ministry in Peru. I hope to post prayer requests, pictures, and general updates about what is happening in the ministry.

However, don't be alarmed...I will still be using this blog (Perspectives) as frequently as I am able to continue to post my thoughts, music, songs, and other random things that strike my fancy.

I look forward to bringing you, my followers, along with me on this exciting journey!

What Faith Can Do...

Time to share a favorite song with you all! (Hang around me long enough and you'll realize I have a new favorite song pretty much every day) :-)

Blog Hopping...

Today I had the privilege to write a "guest post" for my bloggy friend, Christy! She gave some of us the wonderful opportunity and challenge to write about the topic..."What I would like you to know..."

I immensely enjoyed the chance to write for her, and write about a topic dear to my heart...missions! You can read the post by clicking here!

Road Trip!

May has been a busy month...I am very behind on blogging. (Not that I am very regular to begin with) This month started out with a trip to West Virginia to pick up my brother from college! Allow me to share a few fun pics from the trip!

We left bright and early at 6:30 am.


Roughly eleven hours later...this sign welcomed us to the State of our destination.


The school my brother attends.



Me taking in the scenery at the New River Gorge!



This is an amazing bridge spanning the gorge. Apparently, people bungee jump and even sky dive off of this bridge once a year!



The purpose of the trip! My "little" brother, Nate and me...somehow I always manage to cut off his head in pics we take together, because he's just so tall! :-)



Posing with Christie, Nate's girlfriend who came home with us for a week!


Stay tuned for more pics of May adventures!

"They" said it first..."they" said it better

I like quotes...ok, I really like quotes. My philsophy about quotes is: Why try to say something myself if someone else has already said it better?

I know the blog posts have been fairly short and infrequent recently...I hope to remedy this soon. But for now, enjoy some current favorite quotes to ponder.

"Someone asked me, 'Why do you go there?' (meaning the mission field). I said 'God takes your heart and puts it there. Either you follow your heart or live without it.'" --Missionary John Leonard

"Whatever you are...Be a good one." --Abe Lincoln

"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."--C.S. Lewis

"God does it and man sings it. God speaks and a hymn is the mysical echo of His voice."-- A.W. Tozer

"There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone, the light remains." --Anonymous

"Outside of the resurrection of Jesus, I do not know of any other hope for this world."--Konrad Adenauer


Each of these provides enough to mentally "chew on" for a while. The next time I post quotes, they will be of a lighthearted nature. ;-)

Thoughts from Proverbs

A few words of wisdom from the wisest man who ever lived...they made me stop and ponder for a while today. (Taken from Proverbs 17 in the English Standard Version.)

"The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts." Vs. 3

"Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker..." Vs. 5a

"Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends." Vs. 9

"A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool." Vs. 10

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." Vs. 17

"Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding." Vs. 27

Dueling Ninjas

Time for a fun Sunday music post! Check out this great video of the song "Dueling Ninjas" :-) Trace Bundy can do things on a guitar that would be next to impossible for the average person...to hear more of his music visit his website here.