Down the Narrow Path

A few friends have asked me for my pumpkin soup recipe, so here it is!

1 whole pumpkin peeled

2-3 Orange kumara, peeled

Red Thai curry paste

3-4 cloves garlic, crushed

1-2 white onions, finely chopped

1 can coconut cream/milk

4-5 dried Kaffir Lime leaves

A bit of cayenne pepper

handful of fresh coriander, chopped

salt to taste

water (to dilute pumpkin puree if needed)

Cook pumpkin/ku...

It has been a CRAZY week. I am so tired, but I wanted to give you a quick bullet point update, because I love that you take the time to come by and read this  All of these things I will most definitely elaborate on once life resumes back to normal.... whatever that looks like.

• We spent almost 8 weeks in the USA, visiting family and friends over the holidays. We loved being with everyone, and miss them so much already. We've come back, hitting the ground running.
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Hey friends. This is a blog post my dear friend wrote, and I wanted to pass it along. She spoke with such eloquence and was so articulate about something I care about, and I want you to read it.

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"Take Care of the Widow and the Orphan..."

On December 23rd a man who truly carried the burden and heart of the Father for the orphans was in a tragic car accident and went home to be with the Lord.

Derek Loux wa...

Wow... time and life have just flown by!

It was almost 3 months ago that I wrote to you in anticipation of our little bundle of joy. After going two weeks past my due date, and spending 35+ wonderful hours in delightful, induced labor (ha!), our little boy came to join us.

JOSHUA DAVID MARTENS

was born at 6:00 PM on JUNE 27, 2009

I had my weekly check up at the midwife this morning and found some interesting news: bub wasn't due until TODAY! June 15th! Here's why the confusion...

My original EDD (estimated date of delivery) was the 15th of June. Then, when I had an ultrasound later in pregnancy, the reading gave a new due date of the 12th of June, according to bub's size. I just assumed that that was my new and true EDD, but I didn't know that Leigh (my midwife) was still going off of the original o...

The Tauranga House of Prayer (THOP) has just released it's first two promotional videos. One is for the House of Prayer itself; the other is for the Awaken Internship, a three month intensive run here at the House of Prayer. Below is the promo for THOP. I've included the script for each video below for you to read as well.

- THOP PROMO -

I just came on here to tell you that we have had a great weekend.

What did we do?

Well, Saturday, we slept in, and hung around the house... relaxed. Jordan went to the gym around 1, and I finished doing a bit of laundry. Around 2:30 I was on my way for a walk, and Jordan passed by me on the road, so I got in the car, came back to the house, and we went for a walk together. We just walked down to the Bethlehem shops...

Okay... I admit, what a cheeser of a post title, I know. But! I needed some way to express my excitement about the fact that Jordan, me, and our son will be visiting in the US this holiday season! We are so excited about this!

We don't have tickets and specific dates yet (we have to fish around for a good price :wink:, but we are thinking of being in the States for roughly six weeks, between Mid-November until around New Year's. We were last in Florida in J...