Face-to-Face
Some are more in love with their opinion about issues and communicating to those they will rarely see or never meet, than actually forming in-person relationships that will confront any hidden hypocrisy. Trust me. I know. I did it for a long time and still struggle with it.
read moreMy Wife
I have been married to Sarah Grace Parks for 11 years and 8 months now. Her birthday is today. I’ve had the incredible honor of walking side-by-side with her for a little under a third of her life and can’t wait for the rest. My wife is truly my best friend and it is literally impossible to clearly communicate all that she means to me after the past years. The last several have been the toughest our marriage has ever faced but also the sweetest. Somewhere in 2009 we finally began to bridge the gap in our hearts and lives between...
read morePlato, Time and Eternity
I know. I know. It’s been almost a year since I blogged. What’s happened to me? Short answer: I’ve been building other peoples’ websites and blogs (www.richeeparks.com), including a brand new Daniel Training Network website. Long story short, the Lord has had my focus elsewhere over the last year even though I have longed to blog it up so many times. With that out of the way, I wanted to reengage my blog audience with an edited video of my good friend John Harrigan addressing the subjects of Plato, time and eternity....
read moreZion Reign
I still have yet to finish my little blog series but had to interrupt it to blog about the precious new addition to our family. I cannot rave enough about my wife. I saw her do the most incredible thing that I will ever experience with her in my life. This labor and delivery was so radically different than our other two children and I wasn’t pushed to the side by lots of nurses and doctors during the process and/or did not have the opportunity to sit passively by while she labored medicated. That had been our experiences with the other...
read moreRoad To Redemption Part 3: Dragging The Cross
To read Part 1 (Parent Trap) click here or Part 2 (Helpful Hardship) click here. This will be the third and final post of this series. My first post recognized the gracious process of the Lord to humble my pride-filled heart over time through merely one example and facet of life (parenting), although I could have shared many others. The second post highlighted the transition that our lives made as God humbled us and we began to follow the Spirit’s leadership even into uncomfortable places. I wanted this third post to sum it up with our...
read moreRoad To Redemption Part 2: Helpful Hardship
To read Part 1 (Parent Trap), click here. To read Part 3 (Dragging The Cross), click here. Before leaving Bethany International in April of 2011, Grace and I felt as though we had grown significantly in our walk with the Lord. However, the Lord is gracious to us as His children and leaves no stone in our hearts unturned if we allow Him. Why? Because I believe the Lord knows that the fullness of our salvation has yet to be realized until our bodies are clothed in light/glory and the resurrected Messiah, Jesus, is literally sitting on a throne...
read moreRoad To Redemption Part 1: Parent Trap
First off, no baby #3 yet but contractions have been pretty intense over the last day or so. Less sleep, here I come! There hasn’t been much time for the blogosphere these days due to constant transition, being somewhat homeless for 5 weeks, struggling to get health insurance so we can get into the doctor for the first time, realizing that our due date was a month off and we were due a month earlier (!!), and a plethora of other circumstances that have made life a little less than accommodating for my blog. But I definitely wanted to try and...
read moreSmoking Or Non
Our family has been in transition for around 2 weeks now. Really we have been in constant transition for the last 9 months or longer but who’s keeping track? Seriously though, the last few weeks have been filled with sleeping in basements (thank you to those who made a place for us in this time), filling our truck with everything we own…again and being humbled once again in how we don’t have it all together. :) There is so many stories just from the last several days but the best one was from yesterday. I had to share it....
read moreCreative Idea
I want to preface this post with the two links describing why and what we are doing in this season. They will help to better understand some of the things I bring up in this post if you have not already read them. “What” Update “Why” Update As of right now, excluding the miles driving around the cities we land in, we have driven 6,845 miles. We have approximately 2 more months of living in our current RV and fulfilling what the Lord shared with us while in Duluth. Within that time we will travel at least 2800 more...
read moreNew Heart (Testimony)
There have been many who have asked what the heck we are doing as we travel. The answers vary depending on what city we are in but I wanted to give just one testimony from Portland. In a previous post I briefly mentioned a man by the name of John. He has been waiting for a heart transplant. Months ago he was required to move close to the Portland area based on the need for close proximity if a heart were to become available for transplant. As a result he bought a little travel trailer and was forced to temporarily leave his wife and country...
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