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  • Is it Wind or Monkeys?
    Sunday, November 9th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may be spread everywhere.  Song of Songs 4:16a (NIVUK) I live at the moment in a small and simple space on the edge of the Rift Valley in East Africa. The first thing I did when I arrived was drag the wooden desk to a window, where I spend most of my days writing and watching monkeys. I counted 21… Read More

  • Kahama
    Sunday, September 28th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:16-17, NKJV I'm back in East Africa for a season, and memories of my life here over two decades ago are flooding my heart and mind. Before we had children, my husband and… Read More

  • The Silence of God
    Sunday, July 6th, 2025     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    I just finished Shûsaku Endô’s terribly beautiful book, Silence, about two missionaries who go into 17th century Japan to find their beloved mentor, who is reported to have apostatized under unbearable persecution. It was assumed, even by Endô’s publishers, that Silence was about the silence of God. Yet, for the rest of Endô’s life as he lectured about the book, he stated, “I did not write a book about the silence of God, I wrote… Read More

  • I Lift up my Soul
    Sunday, November 10th, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

      To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. Psalm 25:1   Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. Psalm 86:4   Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8, all ESV Mysterious soul, how challenging it is to… Read More

  • King Tide
    Sunday, August 18th, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    For you, little bug. For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14 A king tide is a non-scientific term used to describe the largest type of tide, which occurs when the earth, moon, and sun are perfectly aligned.  I’m a mountain girl, and I did not grow up understanding tides and shorelines. I left the mountains to explore the world.… Read More

  • Airplane Mode
    Sunday, May 26th, 2024     Audrey Frank     One Comment

    Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.  Psalm 46:10 I travel a lot, and sometimes the only break I get from the incessant melody of phone pings is that period of time in an airplane when I am forced to turn my device to airplane mode. Recently as I headed home, the flight attendant explained that it was because our incoming… Read More

  • More
    Sunday, April 7th, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” “Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?” …Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. But… Read More

  • Time for a Holy Pause
    Sunday, March 10th, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    For K, who selahs with me. When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. SELAH Psalm 75:3 On a high mountain deep in the Asian jungle, there is a refuge. At the end of a long red road, it sits like a grandmother, beckoning the bruised to climb onto her lap and be mended, comforted. Sung over with songs of love and healing. The threshold of this… Read More

  • Gone, Just Gone
    Sunday, March 3rd, 2024     Audrey Frank     One Comment

    They went out and got into the boat. John 21:3b Her house is gone, just gone. In its place is a garden. But when I stand there, listening to the creek that has not altered with time, I feel her front porch beckoning me. The swing sings on the wind, inviting me to sit awhile. I can smell the pungent odor of her marigolds, which she swore kept the mosquitoes away. I can see the… Read More

  • When Someone Else’s Obedience Scares You
    Sunday, January 21st, 2024     Audrey Frank     Start the Conversation

    For my brother and friend. Thanks for teaching me to trust our Helper. I lift up my eyes to the mountains—     where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord,     the Maker of heaven and earth. The Lord will keep you from all harm—     he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going     both now and forevermore. Psalm 121:1-2, 7-8 Illuminated only by our headlights in… Read More