Same: I swept for quite a while on Sunday. Different: I swept the yard instead of the house! And the goal was to sweep up all the fallen leaves and flowers, but to leave the rocks. There isn’t grass here, so it’s all “dirt” with rocks. The “dirt” is closer to brown sand, though. In […]

Same: At church this last Sunday we had a child dedication. It was very similar to what we’d have at Oakwood, with a Bible verse, vows taken by the parents, and a prayer. Different: There was only one child being dedicated and she wasn’t walked around the church. (I know it’s not very different, but […]

Before I left the US I shared the following statistic many times: In 2004, only 5% of the roads in My Country were paved. That’s the latest I knew and I didn’t know what to expect when I got here. From what I’ve seen around town, it looks like that percentage has gone way up […]

Yesterday I was reading in John 13. I came across John 13:7 and thought that it summed things up here quite well. It says, “Jesus replied, ‘You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’” Sometimes I feel like everyone I meet here could tell me that multiple times a […]