Matt and Misty Lindsey
Juárez: Just One Word
Juárez. Just one word – disdained by the world, restricted by the fear that shackles her. A terror. Abandoned, scorned, forgotten. Juárez. Just one word – my heart leaps. Excitement fills the air. Anticipation. My city, my home. LOVE. Beauty. Life. Friends. Hope and anticipation of what is to come. I recently had a conversation [...]
November 1st, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
Weilding hope for Juárez
Consult not your fears but your hopes and dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
June 9th, 2010 by Misty Lindsey
The Battle Rages
Photo by Chris Knott There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love. 1 John 4:18 Living in Juarez has forced my eyes open, heightened my senses and toughened up my soft coddled [...]
March 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
This is Juarez: Raising the Stakes
Photo by Dallas Palmer Living on the border can cripple a person’s emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day. Charles Bowden, High Country News The choice that we made to move to the desert cost Misty and me dearly. This has been a grueling battle on almost every level, but the longevity [...]
April 19th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Border Land
A world where half of the people live in extreme poverty is neither just nor secure. Our security depends on more than military might; it depends on other people’s security, well-being, and a hope that replaces anger and fear. We simply cannot and will not beat “swords into plowshares” (remove the threats of war) until all people can [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Fatally Comfortable
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe. -Irresistible Revolution In my research to find statistics for what is really going on here in this bloody city, the most dangerous city in Mexico which [...]
January 9th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey