This past week has been a tough one. Every day that passes makes me wish more and more that I was on a plane headed back to the place that calls my heart. There are just too many incompletes that I left behind in my sweet Brissy, and I want nothing more than to return … Continue reading the place that calls my heart

I'm feeling a lot of feelings today. Maybe it's because my time since being in Oz continues stretching further and further away until it feels like nothing more than a happy dream. Maybe it's because life goes on, reality hits, and you know that you have responsibilities and obligations back home. And maybe it's because … Continue reading a little bit of longing

One of the most important lessons that I learned while in Australia was about the mission field. I met many who had gone on overseas missions, who had gotten involved in YWAM, or who had served simply on a short-term trip through their church. At home as well I have friends who have gone to … Continue reading backyard missionaries

And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter ... My hope is your story will be about changing, ... about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one … Continue reading some leaving and some coming home

After many tearful goodbyes in Brisbane, the ASC had one last adventure together: taking on the iconic city of Sydney, Australia. And what an experience it was! Some people think that if they've seen one city, they've seen them all, but that is totally not the case. Sydney was vastly different from the home I … Continue reading p. sherman 42 wallaby way sydney

The countdown has truly begun now, and I find myself about three days from leaving Brisbane and a week from leaving Australia. Anyone remember that old Kenny Chesney song, "Don't Blink"? Yeah, well, I think I blinked. I honestly have no idea how I am already at this point in my journey. It just doesn't … Continue reading don’t blink

"It's good for the spirit to be reminded as an individual or a community that there will always be something bigger, older, richer, and more complex than ourselves to consider" - Tim Winton, Island Home: A Landscape Memoir. In the last week, I've truly experienced Australia the way that most of the rest of the world pictures … Continue reading embrace the smallness

"Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all." These words of Alfred Lord Tennyson have taken on a whole new meaning to me now that I am left with only six weeks left until I leave Brisbane and seven until I return to the States. Tonight I am feeling … Continue reading tennyson said it best

So last night I returned to Brissy after a nice holiday in Cairns (pronounced like CANS for all my friends back home) for spring break. All the Americans keep referring to it as spring break, but over here it is actually autumn so we get quite a few weird looks from our Aussie friends when we call it … Continue reading “spring” break in cairns

This week has been a week, if you know what I mean. The weekend was kind of slow because I didn't really make plans with anyone. I had a major assignment due last Friday night at midnight (a bit cruel if you ask me, since all of the procrastinators out there *aka me* were working … Continue reading what a day, what a life