Otts On Mission
Reflections on ministry, mission, and the Church
Category: Waiting
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Pity Pushes Away. Compassion Enters In.
When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned… The life of a missionary is one that requires a great deal of flexibility and adaptability. The skills we’ve developed over time as missionaries have served us well in an ever changing world. The things is, even with those skills, objectively speaking, our lives have been anything but stable…
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All Is Not Lost.
All is not lost.God will come through for us.This I know to be true…Even if we are without a way,His care will still be seen. But He will come through.Of this we can be sure.It is good to wait,to wait quietlyfor the salvation of the Lord. And so we shall.
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Faith For When We Can’t See
Looking For Light in The Darkness The past few years have been some of the most difficult years of our family’s lives. Since returning from Italy we’ve seemingly found ourselves wandering what’s felt like a never-ending wilderness. We search for a land that we thought God was preparing for us. We have prayed. God has…
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On Waiting and Sorrow
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him – Psalm 37:7 Psalm 37 has been a Psalm our family has returned to repeatedly in the midst of a season of extended waiting and uncertainty. When loss is experienced and the disorienting nature of the in-between swirls around you, the invitation to wait can…