by Kayla Norris | May 6, 2011 | High School, Missions Trips
I cried. I sat there in my seat with tears in my eyes. It wasn’t even a sad story. It was a happy story. It was the story of Svay Pak’s redemption. I haven’t even been to the village of Svay Pak. Yet I still cried. There was my nation, Cambodia, on...
by Kayla Norris | Feb 5, 2011 | High School, Missions Trips
Tonight my daddy took me to a Thai restaurant and I had the best fried rice I have ever had in my life. It reminded me of this day, back in 2009, in Cambodia: It was our last night in Cambodia before we went to Thailand, and I had folded the napkin into an origami...
by Kayla Norris | Jan 29, 2011 | High School, Loving Jesus, Missions Trips
I keep second-guessing I keep double-checking I keep making sure it is his will. And in that, I delay In that, I waste time In that, I disbelieve him. I don’t want a whim I don’t want an impulse I don’t want to hear the wrong thing. Yet obedience...
by Kayla Norris | Jan 28, 2011 | High School, Missions Trips
Sometimes I wonder if those kids I played with in that slum are still alive. I wonder what their life is like. I wonder what they are doing now. I wonder what their lives could be if someone was there for them, if generosity prevailed, if they were born in a...