Asia...some thoughts.

Will I ever forget that faraway land? May I never. It’s been 6 months since we set out on that adventure.  5 months since we returned. Nine of us, only one who had been there before. 

That month was one I will never forget. The pictures in my room of those precious Thai children, eyes wide... I see them everyday. How can I forget?

It was a month of sleeping on rice mats, eating rice three meals a day, bug bites, hot days, and luke-warm drinking water. But it was also a month of learning to trust God like never before, a month of loving like never before, and a month of adventure like never before!  

From the Karen villages, to Chiang Mai... from two 10-hour bus rides to days on a motorcycle traveling through Vietnam... from a rainy weekend in Omkoi  to the beaches of Nah Trang, God was in it all. It wasn’t all easy, not by any stretch of the imagination, but looking back I can say it was one of the best months of my life.  

And now that I’m home I wonder…will I ever go back? I say yes, send me Lord! He says, “ Be still and know that I am God.” I want to rush back there, God says “ My timing is perfect.” And so today I think of that foreign land, I think of the lessons learned there, I think of the precious children in those faraway villages. And I pray for them. And I wait to hear what God has for me next!