Who Will Go Next?

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. —Jim Elliot

I’ve been surprised by the ongoing dialogue regarding John Chau’s brutal death at the hands of the North Sentinelese, a small tribe living isolated on the Andaman Islands off the coast of India. 

I’m not interested in the non-Christian perspective, as they will never understand a believer’s call to share the Gospel at all costs. But more surprising to me has been the debate among Christians as to whether this man was called by Christ or whether he should have at least followed some other method for sharing the Gospel.  Continue reading

2 a.m., Thailand

It’s 2 a.m., and I can’t sleep. Not surprising, really, figuring it’s my first night back in Thailand in about five years.
I’m jet-lagged (20-plus hours in planes), dehydrated (highs here in Thailand and Myanmar are low 100s), and I miss my family (I’m here, and they’re not).

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{Whereabouts Wednesday}

Since our family is touring the east coast prior to our upcoming move to Nepal, I’ll be using our normal {Work in Progress Wednesday} spot to focus instead on our travels.

 

We’ve been living out of two Action Packers and a duffel bag for nearly a week now: 9 explorers seeing the sights, fellowshipping with friends, and doing our best to be kind to one another in the face of a 3-hour time change, a whole lot of uncommonly busy days, and the logistics of  being vagabonds. It’s been an adventure already– and we’re only a quarter of  the way into the nights and days that separate us from Washington and, eventually, Nepal.

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Chasing unity

Interestingly enough, folks who don’t know us that well assume that in our marriage, there’s some balance of power that swings wildly in one direction or another. Either my husband is leading me around by the nose, keeping me barefoot, pregnant, and locked in the kitchen, or else I’m wearing the pants, cooking up grand schemes like moving to Nepal, and trying to find a way to wedge another little one into our bursting-at-the-seams house.

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