Les Hirst sent me this article*, saying that returning m's need to read it. I think that must mean that he likes it, and I like Les.
Actually Laura and I had a similar thought before we left Taiwan. What if God sent us to work at Safeway? Since she's good at remembering prices, she could run the cash register, and since I'm good at packing, I could sack groceries. And you know, there we would be embedded in a community of people, both coworkers and customers, and what's so bad about that?
But instead we're here in Colorado labeled as global care consultants, embedded in a community/company of global workers, surrounded by many other communities both local and international, and what's so bad about that? Sure Colorado is beautiful, although it has been unusually rainy lately. The humidity was actually over 50% today! (It never got that low in Taiwan!)
And guess what? Most of the same things that were hard for us in Taiwan are still hard for us. Speaking for myself, that would be things like feeling like an outsider, procrastinating, and taking offense when I feel rejected. Fortunately the same God who loved us in Taiwan still loves us here, and the same God who provided for our needs there is still providing here.
I guess that's something worth talking about...
*http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/but-then (The article, in case you can't follow the link.)
PS In case you're wondering we're back from our travels and retreats, which went very well. Next up is TEAM's gathering of international staff on home assignments which they call REAP the last week of July. BTW, this update was also published on wordpress at http://wp.me/pq2yu-10.
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