One of the longest enduring notes on my Ipad is entitled "A Few Things I Want to Write About…" One day, as I sat down to write a blog, I created a list of potential blog topics… and that's as far as I got. Every now and then, I'd open my notes and add to this list, a few simple words to sum up what was burning in my heart and turning over in my mind as Holy Spirit led me through another lesson. Many of these made it into my journal. Very few were posted on my blog, the minority cheering to have made it over the mountain of my procrastination and simultaneously grieving for the tales and truths left behind. So… here I present to you this list as a repentant, well intentioned, modest blog. So modest, it might blush and turn away if you were to comment. A few more will be trekking to be made public soon. And I invite you to ask me about any of these once I'm back in the UNITED STATES on December 3rd!
A few things I want to write about…
1. Always take time for awe and thanks
2. Dance
3. Singing behind the waterfall (Nicaragua)
4. My sweet Deborah (Cambodia)
5. The kittens (Nicaragua)
6. God said… Go. And then God said a bit more…
7. What I miss now and what I will miss
8. Ada moments … bubbles on an elephant, kittens, boots
9. What I've learned so far
10. The hungry caterpillar (Malaysia)
11. Freedom
12. The King and His Kingdom
13. Gospel… the fullness
14. Walking in integrity and consistency
15. Walking out the vision (Malaysia)
16. We come as learners and lovers
17. Lessons in leaving
18. My heart beats for Unity
19. The victory of tears (Malaysia)
20. Invite heaven (Malaysia)
21. A vision- God dances over us… (Malaysia)
22. John Pierre, (Rwanda)
23. Ministry as lifestyle
24. Unforgettable people and their lessons
25. Beauty and the deceit and hypocrisy of shame (Cambodia, Kenya)
26. Intentionality in listening and doing
27. Hard words, a sharp sword, a narrow path (Malaysia)
28. Do the thing you fear
29. The "essentials"… a packing blog about essential nonessentials
30. Street children- months: 2, 5, 7, 8, 9
31. Purity's deliverance (Kenya)
32. Weeding (Thailand)
33. "The Kingdom is made up of small things"
34. Desiring every experience of God (Kenya)
35. Our lives are weird. Our God is good. (Tanzania)
36. An accordion, a dinosaur tie, and tiny swinging feet (Tanzania)
37. For Barwick Baptist Church… the old rugged cross (Tanzania)
38. Kenya video
39. Tanzania video
40. Through brown eyes
41. Nepali loves
42. Go tell it on the mountain (Nepal)
43. Grandpa dances (Nepal)
44. Decisions and God, a widening perspective (Nepal)
45. For my family…
46. Anything can become normal (Tanzania)
47. The culture of heaven (Nepal)
48. Disney moments racers can expect
49. Musings on the mountains (Nepal)
50. Prophecies fulfilled
51. To love boldly
52. The power of encouragement
53. Isaiah 61
54. Lakshmamma (India)
55. Stop the bus! (India)
56. Another rainy update (India)
57. Reflections are extensions (India)
58. "Say yes before you say no"
59. India video
60. A very long list… Boom. Done.
