Chronicles Under the Fig Tree Newsletter Podcast

Hello friends, How’s life treating you?  I hope that you are hanging on to hope no matter what’s going on. But do you ever wonder how Jesus would ask that same question if you casually bumped into him standing in line to pick up his favorite drink at Starbucks? Using my healed imagination, He would probably drop the line from Matthew 11 1 almost every time: Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on r...

Hello friends, It's another Friday on this journey we call life. I have been battling a pesky cold this week (hence my stuffy voice). The song ‘Stand’ by the famous 90’s group REM has been playing in the background of my mind since my plane landed on US soil. And it goes like this: “Stand in the place where you live Now face north Think about direction, wonder why you haven't before Now, stand in...

Hello friends! Am I ever so glad to be back at my familiar spot, as my fingers eagerly type away the words I have been holding for the last few weeks. I am back in America, the place I call home. Wanderlust has taken hold of me for the last nine years, but Europe has become a particular place of wonder for me. The old world, as they call it, has indeed captivated me. There’s something about travel...

I am a work in progress. Undoubtedly. Whenever I think I have arrived, life shows me back to the nosebleed seats. I am recovering from perfectionism. Had I told you that? Y’all, this is my thorn. Paul, the apostle of Christ, begged and pleaded with God to remove his thorn to no avail. Jesus answered, “ no, but ”…my grace is enough for your issue. Somehow I, too, constantly run to the same old alle...