Now that our departure date is just around the corner, the reality of leaving behind family and friends is starting to hit hard at random times. I remember my youthful zeal during my college days when the thought of leaving everything behind and forging ahead on a grand adventure overseas seemed so glamorous. I was [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Jan
2008
30
Emotional Roller Coasters
Published by 11 months, 1 week ago in India and Our Story. 3 CommentsJan
2008
26
Alien
Published by 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business as Mission, India, Musings and Our Story. 2 CommentsIf I had to choose one word to describe the last few days, it would be alien.
Friday was my last full week in the office, and it was weird to leave knowing I would not be back on Monday. I will not be gone in a vacation sense, but working, just remotely. I’ve done it [...]
Jan
2008
23
“It’s going to be weird to stay in one place for very long…”
Published by 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business as Mission. 0 CommentsI’ve found myself daydreaming a lot over the past few months about that statement Jon made in a previous post. I think about friends of ours who just bought a house a few months ago. They got married about 3 months before us and are now settled into a house of their very own…putting all [...]
Jan
2008
23
Questions for Empires
Published by 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business as Mission, Economic, Environmental, Our Story, Quadruple Bottom Line, Social, Spiritual and Wisdom. 0 CommentsShane Claiborne writes:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Don’t let anyone make you think that God has chosen America as [God's] divine messianic force to be reckoned with.†There are compelling voices who claim that God has chosen America (not the Church) as a special embodiment of hope for the world, and then there are [...]
Jan
2008
23
Lost in time
Published by 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business as Mission, India and Our Story. 0 CommentsThis is an older post that I forgot to publish. This feeling pretty much disappeared with the new year and our impending departure.
It’s bitter cold right now, and “We should be in India right now.” has become: “Why haven’t we move to India already? It’d be warmer there!”
Maybe one last Midwestern winter will help us [...]
Jan
2008
23
Blog, and thou shalt be healed?
Published by 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business as Mission, India, Our Story and Travel. 0 CommentsWell, I’m feeling better (not all better) but I’m back at work. Thank God for Nyquil — without it I think we’d both be in bad shape (from lack of sleep due to my coughing/snoring/sneezing). Beth was back to normal the next day and appears to not have caught my nasty cold.
The (last) move is [...]
Jan
2008
21
Sick and tired!
Published by 11 months, 3 weeks ago in Business as Mission, India and Our Story. 2 CommentsBeth and I are both sick… and tired. Cold symptoms, fevers at night, feeling exhausted all the time… it’s miserable!
I got it first, Beth started feeling exhausted yesterday. It’s perfect timing (sarcasm) as we’re in the middle of moving to our final destination before we leave the country. We’re going to house sit for some [...]
Jan
2008
14
Our leave date is approaching fast!
Published by 11 months, 4 weeks ago in Business as Mission, India and Our Story. 0 CommentsWell, now that is it 2008, it’s officially the year we move to India. Though it’s been steadily creeping up on us, it feels like it just jumped a whole lot closer!
We’re in the final stages of purging our stuff (yes, there is still stuff left to purge- I swear it multiplies when you’re not [...]
