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
I can't. He can! Thanks for the quote, anything from Ian Thomas makes me glad! ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you for this reminder. :) Sometimes I lose focus on the central key element of all of the God-life I am trying to live... it's not about me trying, it's about God being who He is and me giving Him glory for that... Wow.
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