As I watch my family drive off without me By Kyle LB Morey “I am an immortal being having a mortal experience,” I say to myself as I awake from a dream. The details of the dream fly away like balloons bursting with helium. Noticing a light in the adjacent bathroom, I suddenly have an…
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On the road to our adventures in housesitting
Day 1: Driving to Wisconsin By J. Denielle Morey I awake with the alarm going off at 3:45 am this morning. I roll out of bed, take a shower, dress and finish packing up the van. Kaelyn awakes at 4 am to do her makeup … don’t know why. We wake the children at 4:15 am…
Supersize me!
Packing the minivan for 3 years for a family of 7 By Kyle LB Morey “What do you pack for a three-year worldschooling adventure for seven people when all you have is a minivan?” I ask Denielle as she zipped up another small suitcase. “What’s essential and what’s not?” “Each family member gets a backpack…
What should my book title be? Ask God.
By Kyle LB Morey Like a hiker who is confronted with a choice between two paths, we, my book team and I, struggled with two different subtitles for my book Ask God. “Why don’t you ask God?” my book shepherd, Ellen, hinted. She is brilliant. That’s why I hired her. So, I spent some time…
My talk as a 12-yr-old on what it means to be a pioneer
By Casey A. Morey I looked up what the word Pioneer meant and came up with this someone who is one of the first people to move to and live in a new area. I got my Patriarchal Blessing on Thursday and the Patriarch told me that pioneer in French meant feet so the old pioneer’s walked…
Did God just thank me for my service?
Our last “midnight” in Anderson By Kyle LB Morey “It’s the last Sunday!” I sing on the way to church to the tune of the witch’s ballad sung in one of my favorite musicals Into the Woods. “Can you turn on the real music?” Kaelyn asks from the back seat. Denielle agrees. “I pray today that each of us…
What will be the consequence of our choice to wander the earth for three years?
By Kyle LB Morey “Goodbye,” I whisper in my sister Maria’s ear as she prepares to leave. “I love you and will miss you greatly.” I mean it. It finally hits. Our decision to sell our house and become wandering worldschoolers has consequences. Maria wants family close by for her boys, my nephews, to…
ABCs of salvation in one weekend
“It is an incredible weekend in the Morey household,” I tell Cheryl and her friends at Clifford’s baptism. They are visiting from one of the oldest churches in Anderson (IN). “We adopted little Lydia this morning, baptizing Clifford this afternoon, and blessing Lydia (baby blessing) this evening!” “You should call it the ABC weekend,” says Cheryl. “Adoption,…
Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth
By Kyle LB Morey Perhaps now is a good time to share with you how the thought of this book came about and why I wished to write it. To do so, I share a journal entry I wrote: It is 2:30 in the morning. Rain is pelting the home front. My throat is slightly…
Thats A Morey 