Hi!
Remember us?
Yes, we are very aware we stink at updates!
To be brutally honest…
We haven’t really known what to say.
In a world inundated with words, posts and publications…
We don’t want to be just another noise… another notification.
I don’t want to offer a single word that doesn’t bring Him glory.
If what comes from us doesn’t inspire hope…
I don’t want to share it.
Most of our daily work continues to be so hidden…
Tiny touches going unnoticed mostly insignificant to the world.
Victories of the secret kind…
Love displayed in a form that most would step over…
Discount and disregard…
But they are bread to us.
They are the bread of THE TESTIMONY…
They remind…
Our God sees…
Our God values each story…
Our God is a God of deep knowing.
Adam and I continue to position ourselves as learners.
He has gone back to school pursuing his doctorate all the while…
Balancing our missionary work, serving as volunteer pastor and stud of my heart and our home. 
Our Smalls are growing daily both in spirit and stature.
Week in and week out…
I see…
They serve, they lead… they become.
And as I look at them…
I remember…
This is what I was born to do…
Equip families to BELIEVE.
To actívate and awaken the saint-warriors.
I continue to seek much grace and wisdom as I love, guide and direct.
Surely, my effectiveness will be directly linked to the level of intimacy in which I personally reside…
Nothing more…
Nothing less.
I wonder what would happen if we all believed that everything hinged on this ONE TRUTH?
What if we laid down EVERYTHING ELSE and believed…
ALL HE WANTS…
Is ALL OF US?
Sons and daughters willing to wait…
A new generation…
Willing to dig into the deeper.
This is why I KNOW we are here in Sámara, Costa Rica.
We are not here to be another church…
Another missionary project…
We are not here to make a statement… or even change a culture…
We are here to shake the ancient grounds.
A revival of intimacy WILL spring out from the grounds.
I give my life for this ONE thing…
That The Church, families and marriages…
Will KNOW HIM in the SECRET PLACE.
But we must believe.
We must believe that TRUE UNION with Him…
Is not only possible…
But also worth dying to the pressing “pressures” of cell phone demands…
busyness, prestige and yes…
Even religion.
For me…
This has been the missing piece.
Forever finding it easier to offer my tasks than devoting my time.
In my work-driven relationship I find the delightful feeling of relevance…
But in the end…
I also feel the ache of the emptiness it leaves behind.
Most of our journey here has revealed our own personal stuckness…
It’s been one of derailing us of lesser things…
The necessary process to get our hearts where they were always destined to go.
So this I leave with you…
While I don’t have anything Pinterest worthy to offer you…
What I do have I freely give…
A sister’s encouragement.
While this beautiful posture is one The Church insists on…
Our affection being offered on the shoulders of The Father…
His invitation for you and me is deeper still.
No longer my hands stirring and striving…
But instead the intertwining of an intimate handhold.
The union between a son and a Father where the only thing the son offers is his full dependence and belief in The Father.
A breath by breath walking and living in connection’s joy and protection.
The too good to be true that really is.
Today in love, I release truth and the faith to believe.
Kelly and The Backwards Missionaries
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