Here's the biggest lesson the LORD is teaching me this month:

Joy is a choice.  I have to choose it.  

It would be really easy to go down the list of everything that's been really hard.  Instead, I want to show you somethings that bring or have brought so much joy.


This is Choudra.  She's my favorite little girl at Spein Neak, the school where Nikki and I teach English.  She always wears red and carries a Mickey Mouse purse and corrects my Khmer.

I get to ride a bike to and from ministry, and whenever I hang out with my Wellspring girls.  
I left my bike in Fort Collins, so it's been a blast being back on one! 

I keep finding random art all over this city.  This is a mural Melssa did at the Spein Neak school.  
There's a also a great, quirky hotel on the ride home that I've stopped at.  They have lots of modern art.


Oh this girl.  She captured my heart at the Bakong village.  

She's considered a "child-at risk" but is so full of smiles and joy.

I couldn't help but LOVE her instantly.

Sending you LOTS of LOVE and JOY and BLESSINGS from Cambodia,
Heather