Quotations: His Sacred Intent
How a Journey of 8,000 Miles Changed Me, part 2
Make sure to check out part 1 here!
Want to make friends in a new country? Be prepared. This isn't always easy. Sometimes you meet someone on the train and instantly, you're buddies. Sometimes you try and try and nothing happens. Many things factor in - you're a foreigner, you're different, your first language isn't the same as everyone else around you. Not only all that but your perspective, worldview, and beliefs are almost guaranteed to be different. Then there's the fact that you've been shaped by your own culture all these years, so yeah, cultural differences are big as well.
All this...and I still live abroad. Better yet, I choose this life! Sure, there's been plenty of disappointments, confusions, misunderstandings, letdowns, frustrations and bad days. But Jesus uses all of those - and more - to mold me more like Himself. It's in that day getting lost all morning or those 60 minutes spent trying to communicate with the clerk about …
Want to make friends in a new country? Be prepared. This isn't always easy. Sometimes you meet someone on the train and instantly, you're buddies. Sometimes you try and try and nothing happens. Many things factor in - you're a foreigner, you're different, your first language isn't the same as everyone else around you. Not only all that but your perspective, worldview, and beliefs are almost guaranteed to be different. Then there's the fact that you've been shaped by your own culture all these years, so yeah, cultural differences are big as well.
All this...and I still live abroad. Better yet, I choose this life! Sure, there's been plenty of disappointments, confusions, misunderstandings, letdowns, frustrations and bad days. But Jesus uses all of those - and more - to mold me more like Himself. It's in that day getting lost all morning or those 60 minutes spent trying to communicate with the clerk about …
Thanks for sharing that! Your blog is very encouraging to me. I heard about Leslie Ludy from this blog and she has become my favorite author. Keep up the good work! God bless!
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I too was introduced to the Ludy ministry through Bloom- and Leslie Ludy is currently my favorite author! I've seen God use Bloom both to grow my own spiritual life immensely, and the lives of others.
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~Sunshine
Thank you so much for sharing that quote. It was something I certainly needed to be reminded about, and came at just the right time. Thank you for your encouraging posts!
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