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 looooooove this quotation!! It reminds me that it's necessary to yield my plans and future to God. His will be done! I should never be afraid of yielding my future to him. If I do yield it completely to Him, my future will, without doubt, go well because it is in his hands.
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DeleteI'm so glad to hear that it also encouraged you as it did me. God is so faithful and trustworthy! May He bless you as you continue to trust Him!