We first arrived in Southeast Asia five months after the destructive tsunami of 2004. My husband was leading our family on an adventure and I was excited about it. We were going to live on a base camp with our children and receive volunteers who were arriving into the affected areas to do everything from clean up the destructed areas to build fishing boats for fisherman who had lost everything.

We had read books like "Don't Waste Your Life" by John Piper and "Waking the Dead" by John Eldredge and we were ready to live for something greater than ourselves. Our family verse is Psalm 119:32: "I run in the paths of your commands for you have set my heart free!" We felt like we were running after Jesus.

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