{"id":18,"date":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-08T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:35:08","slug":"what-do-people-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2009\/07\/08\/what-do-people-see\/","title":{"rendered":"What do people see?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/07\/2816_58881.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/07\/2816_58881.jpg\" alt=\"Mixing of the waters; Manaus, Brazil.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>The picture shown is two rivers that meet and mix into one.&nbsp; However, if you look closely at the picture, you will see that they are actually flowing side by side for some time before they truly mix.&nbsp; One is brown and one is black water.&nbsp; Where they meet is called the mixing of the waters&#8230;.once they mix, you can no longer see the two different colors.<\/p>\n<p>This picture made me think of our time here so far.&nbsp; <em>What do I want to look like in this culture?<\/em>&nbsp; Do I want to be so differnt from the Brazilians that I always look a shade lighter or darker?&nbsp; Also, if I am more &quot;Brazilian&quot; in my ways so that I am not so different, <em>willl I still stand out because of Christ that lives in me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I pray that <span class=\"redText\">in Christ, I will be differnt<\/span>.&nbsp; I want the life of Him to flow through me in a way that you can see <strong><span class=\"redText\">more of Him than me<\/span>.<\/strong>&nbsp; As for being more &quot;Brazilian&quot; in my ways&#8230;I imagine that people will always be able to tell that I am American by orgian, but hopefully the colors won&#8217;t be quite as distinctive.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note:&nbsp; Things are going well here.&nbsp; We have had a wonderful time seeing Joel&#8217;s parents and being able to asses what we will need to take down to Via for our language training.&nbsp; We leave the 21st to start heading that direction &amp; we look forward to learning Portg. so that we can better serve here in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture shown is two rivers that meet and mix into one.&nbsp; However, if you look closely at the picture, you will see that they are actually flowing side by side for some time before they truly mix.&nbsp; One is brown and one is black water.&nbsp; Where they meet is called the mixing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}