Here we are. July 2026. A specific year, a specific moment in time. A turning point, guided and directed by the One that makes all wandering paths straight and clear. Our lives, arcs of purposeful open and closed doors strategically placed in front of us. In any given moment, every rise and fall appears to be a completed story with a beginning and end, yet the stories seem disjointed from one another…until you broaden the picture and what was once a series of hills and valle

“Lord? What is all this for?” Our house, positions, materialistic possessions? Will this not all be nothing but waste in 10, 50, 100 years?” My head spun the ideas of comfort, predictability, security on a record over and over again. I had gone to Japan February to visit my dear friend Johnson and his wife Cierra in Ibiraki-shi. While there, I found myself at a common event, a DTS graduation. During that ceremony, a phrase challenged me to my core. A phrase that would echo in

S ix months have come and gone and with it, so many of our completed goals for 2025. This past year has been filled with incredible opportunities both foreign and domestic and following the course the Lord has laid out has been nothing short of exciting, constructive, and eye-opening. S ince the first trip to Japan years ago, we’d anxiously prepared for our family’s first journey abroad. The time came and we headed eastward from LAX (Los Angeles INT Airport) to Osaka, o

Sunset in Takatsuki, Osaka Almost 2 years have gone by since the day Johnson and I first landed in Japan, and in just 24 hours, this...