Natalie Ogbourne

A Good Name

Last summer I met the son of a favorite great-uncle. My whole family was staying at a Minnesota fishing resort and when he came by, I, because I don’t like to meet people, at first let my mom go greet her cousin by herself. Eventually, though, I decided to be a...

Bends in the Road

I found myself staring at my computer screen, rather shocked at what I had written.  What had started out as a simple story about my little girl’s foray into the world with her Pa and how it carried over into our family’s life on the trail had turned, unbidden, into...

On Vision and Purpose

Three simple verbs for this new year: Restore. Retrain. Remember. To remember is the most difficult. Three reminders for the new year: From the Word: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk...