Confronting Life Together with Love

Recently I was vacationing in Flagstaff with a friend, where we decided to stay in a hostel for the night. As we checked in and milled around the common room, people started asking us the normal get-to-know-you questions. Being a MissionCorps member at Maggie’s Place, I dread this very ordinary social interaction, because often right…

Serving Through Brokenness

It doesn’t take a big heart to serve, just a broken one. The longer I have been at Maggie’s Place, the more convinced I am of the truth of this statement.  It is our humanness that allows the community at our homes to flourish. Just last week I was downtown helping a new mom gather…

What Only a Mother Would Know

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be pregnant?  Well, I can’t speak from experience, but I do happen to know quite a few women who can shed some light on being pregnant—and often do. From what I’ve experienced at Maggie’s Place, I could answer that it’s looking forward to ultrasounds, deciding between the…