For the past several years the task of all of our written communication has fallen to B. He’s asked me to write a post for the blog and I responded that I’ll try to get to it. The inevitable reality is that the pressing needs of family (dinner, potty training accidents, running out of some staple food…) always take my time and brain capacity. However, somehow, miraculously at this moment the dishes are washed, children are in bed, and I have a moment to try to share a bit of the journey God has had me on lately. We returned to our Asian home just over a year ago. One of the interesting things of our Home Assignment in 2016 and the return to the field in 2017 is that B and I dealt with a minimal amount of culture shock going either way. (It was quite a different story for our kids, but that’s for another time.) The excitement of living overseas has long lost its glamor and we knew exactly what we were returning to as we returned to our city. We also had seen that some of our bigges...
The stories and thoughts of living in between two homes.