"If you give the driver chocolate, he will drive you wherever you need to go."
This joke didn't actually come from our taxi driver, but from a successful pastor who has been a part of planting over 300 churches, starting multiple children's homes, and having a voice in the creation of Nepal’s new constitution that will protect religious...
Saturday was a good day. I like days full of time with people, and Saturday was definitely that. I suppose my full, happy people time started Friday evening. A friend’s kiddo got sick, so our dinner guests cancelled. I was bummed, but then R suggested that he could put J to bed and that I could go to onsen (bath) with a friend. I picked her...
I started this when Mom was still here, which was more than a year ago. Wowzas. But re-reading my jotted notes made me chuckle.
Japanese is vague. There’s so much reading between the lines that sometimes I second-guess my second-guessing (“sometimes” meaning several times a week). Yesterday, I was trying to get a few clear...
It’s been a while since I’ve written. I want to write a little more regularly as it’s almost like a discipline that helps me finish sentences (some of the time). I’m so scatter-brained with my mind jumping from one thing to the next that trying to tell a story or share something that God is doing in my life takes, well,...
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ (Philemon 1:6).
In our last newsletter (ahem, a few months ago…), we shared some of our friend’s story of coming to Christ. I occasionally meet with her to pray and to read Scripture together. As I...
The last few days felt like pretty big swings in seeing some of the beauty of Japan as well as some of her brokenness.
Lost: One snapshot is from my first Buddhist funeral. I’ve been to 3 other funerals, but they’ve either been at church or have been for a Christian at a funeral home-type facility. These funerals were somewhat similar...
Wednesday was a national holiday, so businesses (and church) closed down. R, J, and I went to our friend’s camp (or rather the camp her parents are managing) a few hours south of us. We went in December when it was covered in a lovely layer of snow. This time it was spring, and the woods practically shouted at me as I got out of the car. The...
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