06|21THINK AGAIN! An Ignite Europe Devotional by Tanja Brann “There he is, always here, or nowhere.” —Oswald Chambers The church bell rings. It is six o’clock in the morning. With each step, the soles of her high heel boots make a new print into the fresh powder snow that is so beautifully covering the cobble…
It was 6am as I was driving through Starbucks on the way to the hospital in the Spring of 2009. I didn’t sleep at all that previous night nor the weeks leading up to that particular one. Utterly sleep deprived and feeling like I was living a nightmare I remember holding tight to the steering…
For the past 3.5 years we have been on the mission field in the most expensive city that lies in the middle of the most expensive country in the world. Now, that seems not only not smart but actually very stupid when you rely on financial support from the outside and mostly from people in…
Motherhood. I believe one of the most rewarding acts is to lay down ones life for a child. Raising children is amazing. It teaches me both patience and efficiency. It teaches me humility and gratitude. It teaches me to be a voice for the voiceless in our community and on this globe for the sake…
This picture perfectly depicts my two mini-mes. One lives her life perfectly by the book. She’s a little Swiss engineer in the making. Everything in her mind has a process, a place, and a perfectly good reason why it functions the way it does. The other one could care less about process, order, and functionality……
Waiting. Sitting in silence. Seasons of waiting are the hardest. But when beauty is found in the waiting… when perseverance prevails… then the very moment when the sail catches the wind and carries us into the next chapter of our lives – that moment becomes so much more beautiful. It is beautiful because we took…
What happens when your dream, the one thing that you think about when you first wake up in the mornings and the one thing that you think about last before you go to sleep… takes years or even decades to see it come to fruition? It’s that dream… that vision that excites you beyond anything…
The Story That Changed Me | Part 1 I’ve been mostly quiet on this topic over the past 9 years. If you know me well, you know my story, at least part of it. I’ve been often asked why I haven’t written about it. Why I’ve been mostly quiet about it. To be…
Your past doesn’t define you. It refines you… if you let it. The past few months I keep being reminded of where I come from, the seasons I’ve walked through, the stories I’ve lived, the testimonies I have and the mighty God I serve. I’m a master at making excuses about sharing my stories because..…
“You will fail but it’s ok. It’s your first time being a parent and it’s her first time being a baby. She won’t know what’s right or wrong. Just do your best, love her and everything is going to be ok.” Those words, spoken to me by our pediatrician, were soothing to my ears as…
