by Kayla Norris | Dec 25, 2015 | Loving Jesus, Uncategorized, YWAM DTS
Christmas. Sometimes I want to ask Him why. Why couldn’t it just be a happy story? I mean, every year we read it as that. Good news of great joy, right? Yet, if I’m honest with myself, the Christmas story is laced with great pain. And I just want to scream, why. Why...
by Kayla Norris | Nov 23, 2015 | Loving Jesus, YWAM DTS
I want to write about grieving. But I don’t know where to start. Because if I even use the word “grieve” you’ll probably brush it off. Nobody’s died, at least not recently, so this isn’t going to connect to you. Or maybe you know...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 24, 2015 | Missions Trips, YWAM DTS
I collapsed on the cement parking block alongside the canal. Autumn trees dripped their yellow leaves into tied-up boats, seventeenth-century apartments stood squished together. Tourists stopped sporadically by Oudekerk, snapping selfies. The great stone church loomed...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 19, 2015 | Missions Trips, YWAM DTS
My fingers hover over my laptop keyboard. I switch songs, I flick between Notes and Evernote, I settle back to typing on my phone- mainly because it’s my only device with Wifi at the moment. Everything seems quite normal. It’s a Monday night, I am...
by Kayla Norris | Oct 1, 2015 | Loving Jesus, YWAM DTS
“Come and have breakfast”– in the heart broken disappointment there’s an invitation. Things didn’t turn out as they thought. The Roman rulers were still on their thrones, they were still obscure rebels on the run– even more so now– people say...
by Kayla Norris | Jul 13, 2015 | Missionary Kids, YWAM DTS
I’m slouched in the black plastic chair– barely comprehending that this moment is colliding with my present. “These are the books you are going to be reading about how YWAM started…” our DTS leaders announce as they start handing out those...
