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Physical Therapy Anyone? Part 3 of 6
While at our conference in Beijing, we were treated to lovely, spoiling things by a ministry to North American missionaries. You’re really only supposed to go to ONE of these conferences in a lifetime, but when they have space available, missionary vultures like Jen and myself are allowed to participate again. (We are already stalking … Continue reading
Vulnerability Stinks…Part 2 of 6
After reading about getting swindled in Beijing, now you get to hear the rest of the story… As we continued our trek to Tiannamen Square, I could not shake how foolish I felt for being taken…it is not often, as adults (at least if you put forth a small effort toward wisdom) where we are … Continue reading
Roughed up in Beijing – Part 1 of 6
Inspired by my BFF, I am going to blog for six days in a row…I promise they won’t all be about Beijing (unless, of course, I run out of material and have to start ratting out said BFF about her not-so-nice-comments about China)…besides, I’ve wanted to see what it’s like to blog every day and … Continue reading
Flying Brings It Out of Me…
Flying brings it out of me… I am waiting in the Chiang Mai airport to begin a journey to visit my best friend, while simultaneously attending a conference in Beijing, China. What could be better? Not much, I must admit. But it began creeping up on me yesterday – my growing resistance to … Continue reading
Giving birth to 20 year olds…
I’ve been wanting to blog about this for some time…today seems like as good a time as ever… When I was young and people started talking about babies (a conversation I usually steered clear from) I often said with great bravado, “I would be willing to go through a tremendous amount of labor to give … Continue reading
On Silent Warnings…
Intrigued and thankful today for the silent warnings, God, through His Spirit, gives us. In the midst of a fairly mundane Tuesday, I decided to venture out and grab some stuff at the store…all throughout my drive to Japanese 100 Yen Store (yes, they have one in Thailand!), I kept finding myself rather melancholy. Was … Continue reading
Lao – Day 2 (censored) and now it’s January…
Well…writer’s block got the best of me…not because I didn’t have something to say (has that ever happened…no)…but because I was applying the rule of “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it at all”. I learn this little tidbit from my very own mouth about three times a day when I … Continue reading
Lao – Day 1
Well, as I sit here, we have been on this journey for 24 hours. We left last night and boarded the VIP bus en route for the border town of Udon Thani. I think it’s really good that we slept through that bus ride….it was super curvy and I think if I had been more … Continue reading
Maybe the longest post ever…
It seems that the blog has run away without me…I’m having a hard time keeping up with it, so please excuse this extremely long post that might, just might, double as a Christmas newsletter! We are 95% moved into our new home…everyday something finds a place to go and we are just about done with … Continue reading
Two Kings and their Birthday
Wow…the last post was about Vietnam…why does that feel like years ago? Life got really fast upon our return visiting the DTS team – thanks to the generosity of so many people in Okinawa, we had about 50 pounds of American candy that had to be distributed to lots of people and I took the … Continue reading