This week hasn’t gone as expected. Even tonight, we had dinner plans that fell through because a friend isn’t feeling well. I made lunch on Thursday for a friend who told me at the last minute that she didn’t feel well and couldn’t come. A few other get-togethers were cancelled – and all of this extra “free...
When Robert was in CA, J and I went for a jog. We greeted a grandma in our neighborhood who was out working in her yard. After some small talk (mostly about my mom’s visit to Japan – I’ve never talked with this woman before in my life and she somehow knows a good deal about our family…), she asked me about a fruit...
I wish I could say that I’m a consistent exerciser. So although this might look like “oh yeah I’m jogging and disciplined and fit and fabulous,” …(snicker snicker snicker)…
I did go for a jog the other day. I got J suited up in warm clothes, carried him to the garage, and started loading him into the jogging...
I hope that someday I’ll be able to communicate in Japanese well – listening, speaking, nonverbals, etc. That’s a real (and noble ) goal/hope/prayer. Connected with that, though, is that I hope I’ll communicate things that are worth communicating.I remember when a friend in Kosovo said to me, “Be...
Last week was a rather stressful/intense/faith-stretching/scary kind of week. Three situations in particular were quite yucky, and each looked pretty hopeless to me. Each also had the potential to really blow up in some tough ways (yes, my mind went to the worst-case scenario pretty quickly – including police, deportation, violence, feuding,...
Here’s the alternate, melodramatic title to this blog: Clouds blocking out the sun. The winter here in northeast Japan is cloudy. No, we don’t get a lot of snow and, no, it’s not even super cold (although inside and outside temperatures are about the same…). But it sure is grey. I know the sun is...
“I can believe the promises of the Bible for others but not for me.”
More specifically, “I can believe that God totally, unconditionally loves others, but I have trouble believing this for myself.”
Perhaps blogging is a strange way to process this one. But I’ve heard these phrases several times over the last month...
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