[I started writing this post whilst sitting (on the floor) at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport on my way to Wisconsin for Christmas Break and finished it on the floor of the same airport on my way back from Christmas Break…so technically these are still musings from an airport, even though they aren’t all from the same airport stop!]

This past ( Read more... )

I meant to write this post a couple days ago (three, to be exact), but it ended up not happening...like quite a few of my post do!  But at least it's getting written now, and at least it's still in the same week that it should have been written in.  And why did this particular post need to be written during this week?  Well, Tuesday, November 21st ( Read more... )

I don't have much time to post here since I need to finish up my theology homework, read eleven chapters in Exodus and come up with chapter titles for them and hopefully get some other reading done...but I wanted to commemorate this somehow.  It's a crazy thought...but a year ago today I was en route to Thailand.  I left late the evening of the 6th ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year and a half since I got back from India (amazing thought!) and I was only there for about two months, but certain things you never lose.  For instance, the enjoyment of eating food with your right hand.  For those of you who don't know, in India, it's custom (and common sense, really!) to eat one's food (usually some rice ( Read more... )

It came and went without me even taking notice...though about a week ago, I remembered it was coming and made a mental note to blog about it.  I must've lost that mental note somewhere!    Anyway...Saturday, the 22nd, was the day that my one-year non-immigrant visa to Thailand expired.  That may not seem like a big deal to you, but it was rather ( Read more... )

In my last post, the one about my dancing, I mentioned the song, "Come, O Redeemer, Come", that I choreographed/danced to in Thailand.  I first heard it while watching Jackie's (the wife of the couple that I lived with in Thailand...she's also a ballerina) Ballet Magnificat The Journey of the Prodigal Son ballet video (a wonderful ballet, by the ( Read more... )

A couple days ago, I came across this wonderful quote at the Serven Clan's blog...it's from the book Knowing God by J.I. Packer (which I still have yet to read)...

"God's love is stern, for it expresses holiness in the lover and seeks holiness for the beloved. Scripture does not allow us to suppose that because God is love we may look to Him to ( Read more... )

We sang the following song at Young Adult Fellowship the evening of the Sunday I found out I was going to leave Thailand...and this song was so appropriate.  After I e-mailed and asked, my friend, Siri, sent me the lyrics and I got them this morning and thought I'd share it with you all.  I'm not even sure what the name of the song is...but the ( Read more... )

At YLCF (a place that I seem to link to quite often!), I recently came across this excellent post, "The Gentleman in the Pith Helmet".   It brings to mind two Oswald Chambers quotes that helped me during difficult "Why am I here?" times in Thailand...

"Missionaries can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the ( Read more... )

He’s Always Been Faithful
By Sara Groves

Morning by morning I wake up to find
The power and comfort of God's hand in mine
Season by season I watch Him amazed
In awe of the mystery of His perfect ways

All I have need of His hand will provide
He's always been faithful to me

I can't remember a trial or a pain
He did not recycle to bring me gain
I can' ( Read more... )