Smile... No translation needed!

It crosses borders, ages, languages.
No experience reguired.
Smile and see what happens... Welcome greetings peer around corners.

Syndy shares photos and smiles with a girl from a village in Cambodia.

My sister, my friend.
Better together.

Friends are good.

Treasure the love that you receive above all.

It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Og Mandino

Hangin' with the boys

Syndy and Lori hanging out with the boys in Cambodia.

Live in Love: In Action

Her name is Somaly Mam. As a child she was sold into a brothel as a sex slave in Cambodia where she was beaten, raped, and tortured. At the age of 30 she became a spokeswoman for women and children tortured in the brothels of Cambodia. Somaly has created an organization (AFESIP) with the goals to save and socially reintegrate people who are victims. Her organization accomplishes this through counseling, training, opportunities to work, and then reintegration into society. She has dedicated her life to rescuing girls and young women from sex slavery in Cambodia. She often receives death threats but this does not deter her work. Somaly says, “I just want to give them love, for real. It’s what I needed.”

(To view a video of Somaly Mam and to learn more about her work, visit cnn.com, CNN Heroes: Somaly Mam)




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The Johns and Pauls had it right....

Whether it’s the Beatles (All you need is love) or the Bible, Johns and Pauls know about Live in Love. The apostle John wrote and spoke about it often, including his statement in 1 John 4:16 about anyone, everyone who lives in love. Many of Paul’s teachings were about love. In Ephesians 5:2 Paul wrote, “Live a life of love” and in 1 Corinthians 16:14 he stated “Do everything in love.” We can find countless examples of Live in Love throughout history as well as in our present, everyday lives. At home, around the world, sometimes where we least expect it. Take the challenge – how many examples of Live in Love can you find?

And a child shall lead them...

It was the hottest day yet of our week long medical mission trip to the Tae Kao province in Cambodia. We set up the clinic early in the morning after driving on dirt roads that ended before we arrived at our destination. After that it looked like a dry, desolate, dust bowl as far as we could see. I’m not sure if there were roads or we were simply headed in a general direction. I thought to myself this is a place that appears to have difficulty sustaining life. And without life, how can there be love?
Throughout the day the sweat literally ran down our faces and the rest of our bodies. The temperature was well over 100 with humidity to match, scorching sun, no breeze, and no rain in sight for a few more months. And yet they came. No cars or busses with air conditioning. A few on scooters or motorcycles, some on bicycles, but most of them walked in the unforgiving heat with no water, no shade, and no promise of anything at the end of this day’s journey. While I was in awe at what they went through, the distances they traveled by foot, just to arrive here to see the “white doctors” and receive medical care, there were 2 visitors who stood out among the rest; a young girl and an older woman, one leading the other by the hand. Just to hear the description I, like most people, would imagine the woman holding the hand of the young girl, with the young girl following. But, no. I was wrong, again. The young girl, the child, was holding the hand of the woman. The woman was blind. She followed the child, the child led her. There has to be love here. And with love, then there can be life.

The woman could not have made the journey alone. We all have limitations that prevent us from making the journey alone. Live in Love and you will never walk alone.