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, misu
What a powerful way to make people stop and think about how God can use even the worst things in their lives for good! "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. . ." (Romans 8:28)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this song. I'd never even heard of Laury Story but this song is tear-jerkingly real.(Yes, I just turned "tear-jerker" into an adverb!)
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this song. I've listened to it so many times since it came out. Such encouragement!!
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ReplyDeleteI just heard that song on the radio the other day and it touched me greatly. We certainly gain new perspective when we trust that God can use those very things that break us to draw us much closer to Him. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful! Thanks for sharing
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