The Beauty 

  • Coconut trees (I’m determined to make my way to the top before I leave)
  • Palm trees
  • Rice Fields
  • Wooden houses on stilts 
  • A cool breeze that comes after a rainy night
  • Green everywhere
  • Children’s laughter throughout the day
  • Watching the interesting games they play (marbles, hole in the dirt, and hopping on one leg – kids do the darnedest things)
  • The market – a 5 minute bike ride – filled with sweet sticky rice, amazing banana rice cake things, and dragon fruit – mmmmm. (I love me some Cambodian food)
  • Headlamps
  • The lake
  • Amazing sunsets 
  • Baby blue mosquito net – Praise The Lord
  • Banana trees and there leaves that are useful for so many things
  • The icee man
  • Who needs Oreos when I have me some Stereos
  • Singing, “Do you love my Jesus, deep down in your heart” with the kids through the rice fields
  • The cutest baby pig that walks crooked (He’s broken)
  • Listening to Dara (one of the kids) singing Justin Bieber 
  • Sour Mangos 🙂
  • The milky way, stars, and moon (Looks unreal out here in the country side of Cambodia)
  • Homes filled with hammocks – sweet living
  • My Cambodian momma’s cooking
  • Bucket showers
  • A translator 
  • Walking around barefoot because its socially acceptable
  • Squatty potties (Love/Hate relationship)

The Lord please help me see the beauty 

  • Gecko’s with heads the size of my fists that freely climb on our walls
  • Sneaky chickens that try to invade our house
  • RED ANTS
  • Mosquitos 
  • No rain = no bath
  • Squatty potties (Some days I just long for a toilet)