I realized over the last weekend that I have not posted on here since October, after being in the USA with my family for three months at the end of 2013, around the time of my mother’s death. I guess I have been that distracted with the events of the last few months. I will admit that perhaps I have just also simply not felt like it. In addition to the hard events of the last part of 2013, it is also easy in the winter time here in Croatia to feel like I want to get into a kind of “hibernation mode.” It is a time of mostly gray skies and either rain or snow most of the time. This is what I arrived to when I came back at the end of December. Not that there was not work to do when I returned. I was actually thankful for the sudden busy-ness of preparing for our Jesus Conference that happened at the end of January (more about that in another post). It kind of kept me distracted from missing my mother, who passed away at the end of October. I would like to dedicate this year of work and service, to Jesus as usual to be sure, but also to my mother’s memory, legacy, and example of faith and service to me and many others. I love and miss you Mom and wait to see you again.

Kay Allen Taliaferro