{"id":1227,"date":"2017-06-23T16:05:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2017-06-23T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:42:09","slug":"snorkeling-or-suffocating-guest-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/2017\/06\/23\/snorkeling-or-suffocating-guest-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling or Suffocating (Guest Post)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest post by Matt and Karissa Long.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The difference between the two is just a little plastic tube. \u00a0Recently I (Karissa) got the opportunity to go snorkeling in the ocean. \u00a0I got to see beautiful coral reefs and fish I\u2019d only seen in aquariums. \u00a0It was an experience, but I can\u2019t say it was a fully enjoyable one. \u00a0As I was swimming, I couldn\u2019t shake the feeling like I might drown at any moment. \u00a0I knew that I could breathe through\u00a0the snorkel, that it was my connection to the vast supply of oxygen above, but it wasn\u2019t how I was used to breathing. \u00a0I really wanted to just pop my head up and breathe, but whenever I did, I\u00a0missed the beauty below. \u00a0So I tried to keep swimming, gazing on the beauty and trusting my snorkel to bring me air, repeating to myself,<\/p>\n

Just keep breathing. \u00a0Breathe in, Breathe out.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Our time in PNG has been a little bit like that. \u00a0We know it is an incredible privilege, with opportunities to see God at work in ways we\u2019ve never seen before. \u00a0But it\u2019s been hard, and different. \u00a0We don\u2019t know our next steps- we don\u2019t have partners yet, and we don\u2019t know for sure where we\u2019ll move to in a couple of months. \u00a0We are having to depend on God for our sustenance and His provision in a moment-by-moment way. \u00a0Jesus is our connection to the vast supply of all God\u2019s power above. \u00a0When we wonder what God is doing, we have to remind ourselves of His past faithfulness and Who we know Him to be. \u00a0We have to keep saying to ourselves…<\/p>\n

Just keep trusting. \u00a0Trust Him today. \u00a0Trust Him tomorrow.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matt and Karissa are currently learning how to live in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and making plans as they go in order to work with partners within one of PNG’s many people groups. They have two boys, Ty and Wyck. You can keep up with them here at their Ethnos360 Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is a guest post by Matt and Karissa Long. The difference between the two is just a little plastic tube. \u00a0Recently I (Karissa) got the opportunity to go snorkeling in the ocean. \u00a0I got to see beautiful coral reefs and fish I\u2019d only seen in aquariums. \u00a0It was an experience, but I can\u2019t say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":782,"featured_media":1230,"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":[83382],"tags":[448,83590,639,638],"class_list":{"0":"post-1227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-guest-post","8":"tag-ethnos360","9":"tag-family","10":"tag-kids","11":"tag-papua-new-guinea","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}