Last night while reading a Bible story from John 4 with Japanese friends from church, I was struck by their posture. I was sitting with a grin on my face while they were sitting with looks of serious concern.
The story we were reading was of the healing by the pool of Bethesda in chapter 5. I have...
I don’t think I’ve ever received so many flowers in my life as I have since moving to Jland. When I lived in Kosovo, a fellow m. friend said that she tries to be aware of when God sends her flowers. She’s not speaking of literal flowers but rather noticing gifts from our Father – of pr...
(I wrote this last night but couldn’t post)
Today is our day off. After a slow morning, R and I decided to go for a little walk in our town together. We headed out at around 2p and got home around 6:45p. Although our main purpose was to spend some time together and enjoy the slightly warmer...
I just finished a Japanese lesson over Skype with my teacher of 2 weeks. We’ve now met together (“together” in a very 21st century kind of way) for a total of 8 hours. For part of today’s lesson, she was helping me work on my testimony and, at the end, she shared with me a bit of hers.
At two...
These are un-profound thoughts on an un-profound quote. Yet, although I read the quote on a friend’s Facebook page over a year ago (who incidentally is none of the ethnicities mentioned in the quote), the memory of it has popped into mind quite frequently. So…here’s some...
Robert and I had a really nice day off today. We had a slow morning and then headed up to a town an hour and a half north of us – a town that has experienced a lot of sadness over the last 3 years. R wanted to take me to a funky cafe/restaurant for lunch (a cafe with a sad yet b...
In May, R and I went to A2′s week-long retreat in beautiful Karuizawa. This year’s theme was releasing prayer and listening to the rhema (or revealed word) of God.
Both to practice and to be ministered to ourselves, we had little “prayer exercise” times with members of an...
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