I cannot blog too much on Vietnam specifically. Here is something I’ve written to describe this season I’m in with God. I heard a song that was saying I see a desert, but God sees something else and it inspired me to write this. HE is moving! He is doing things. He is preparing us for something GREAT!!!
It is not as it seems. What is beauty. Is is a garden or is it a wilderness. Is it a desert or is it a beach. Is it a place with luscious fruit trees or a place of dead dried up trees. Is beauty in the eye of the beholder. Is it in the maker. Is it in His plans and seasons for you. What if His darkest season for you was His idea of beauty. Or your driest time was His idea to mold and shape you. What if I said the desert was a garden. The wilderness was a place of luscious fruit trees. That the beach was a desert and the garden a wilderness. What if when no one else seemed to be around was a time of refreshment not a time of dryness. 
What if your driest time was His most refreshing time for you. When nothing seems to satisfy like it once did was actually a time to lead you to a holy frustration. To get you to a point of going to the one true source. To run to Him for your everything. To allow Him to quench the deepening thirst and desires. When everywhere and everything you once looked to for affirmation and wholeness was gone. And what if that wasn’t the end of hope, but the birthing of something new. An inside core, the roots of a new tree that will be drawing its life from pure true uncontaminated water. What if your loneliest time was in fact His design to rid you of the shifting sand you try to stand on and cause you to look to the solid foundation. To the only one left standing. To produce a foundation of acceptance built on the true life giver. A core that will produce a confidence, a strength like never before. That will enable the ability to fly, to soar. What if 
what you thought was death was actually a birth. And what looks like the end was actually the beginning. Where night was actually day. Because His darkness for you is actually His light being brought forth. For in the desert will be found the one source of water, Him. He wants to be your IT. You’re hello, your hug, your answer to your need for love and affirmation. This desert is actually your garden. Where life will be birthed. And your wilderness filled with loneliness is actually where a constant companion will be found. Where the trees that once produced the wrong kind of fruit are withering up and dying to make way for the fruit trees of the kingdom. Where the smell of death, old things passing away, is actually the smell of life, freedom and newness. It is not as it seems. Look again through the eyes of your loving Father. Peer in the hole with His heart. See what He sees. For it is not as it seems. Beauty is darkness. Beauty is His hand moving no matter what it may look like.
