How do you shield your children from the reality of death? Do you pretend it isn't a fact of life and ignore it? Do you guard them from thinking about it and constantly divert their attention to juvenile things? Or do you talk candidly about it, helping them think about it in a healthy way? The reality of death is really everywhere. You really can't teach your kids Bible stories without running into this theme rather quickly. Disney films don't even try to hide the fact that people pass Read More
First time for everything
We are off to a weekend of camping four hours away (north). In Iceland, they don't make bonfires when they camp, and it will never get dark tonight, so this should be interesting. To add to it, this is the first time we have ever taken the kids camping and it's supposed to be cold this weekend. I have packed thermals and winter gear. Pray for us... Read More
The Colors of Midnight
Photographic moments by Colby Garman Read More
Road Race (Icelandic style)
We finally discovered an Icelandic running website that advertises different races around here, so Friday night we decided to go to an evening race in the outskirts of Reykjavik. Colby and I both wanted to compete which meant the girls were coming with us in the jogging stroller. The 9K race started out on a very narrow trail, so Colby and the kids were literally in last place for the first mile in an effort not to hold any one up. The kids could not understand this, and the whole first mile I Read More
Our trip is finally documented…
See the rest of the pictures from Athens, Corinth, and the island of Agistri HERE. Read More
Role-Reversal
When I first came to LU as a freshman, I was a declared missions major. I was going to Ecuador as a single woman missionary and I didn't need no man. After my first week of freshman orientation in a classroom full of boys, my advisor Harvey Hartman gently counseled me to find another major. He thought it would be wiser for me to find a trade to bring to another country, and after much praying and thinking, I switched my major to ESL (a brand new major at LU).ESL teachers were in such high Read More
Fourth of July-Iceland style
It was our first Fourth of July not in America (obviously), so it was a little disappointing when I looked at the calendar after I woke up. However, we stumbled upon a little Fourth of July celebration put on by the American Embassy here. Singing "This land is your land, this land is my land," with the folk band, face-painting, balloon animals, bounce houses, and free food was all I needed to put me in the festive spirit. We met some new American friends which was the highlight of the day. Read More
Free Audiobook: Crazy Love, by Francis Chan
Every month Christian Audio gives away a free audio book. All you have to do is go to the website, put the item in your shopping cart and use the coupon code for the month. This month the code is JUL2009 and the book is Crazy Love by Francis Chan. Chan is a Pastor in CA and several people have recommended the book to me, but I have not yet read it. Now I'm going to listen to it instead, and so can you. Here is the link. Read More
Back Home
Wow, it's nice to have internet access! What an amazing time of refreshment we had. It was so great to be around lots and lots of people from our company (try 1,000 of them), walk outside without a coat, hear crickets, and see a dark night sky again. Click HERE to see more pictures of where we stayed our first week in Evia and the first part of our trip to Athens. More to come soon.... Read More
Bustin’ Out…
I've heard a lot about how high depression is here in the winter. They have special things here called "happy lights" that you can sit under that apparently boost your mood. On Tuesday when we went to the pool, I asked if one had to wait till the winter to use these lights. The "summer" here has been hard for me. I keep waiting for it to come. Finally, last Wednesday, I stopped being angry about it, I stopped fighting it, and I just accepted it. This is what you get. 50's...and if we're Read More
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