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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

Fitting in

Fitting in when you enter a new culture can be a challenge. 

My parents grew up in America and moved to Asia.  Learned language and culture to fit in.

I grew up in Indonesia and loved the place of my childhood and teenage years. I spoke the language, played their games, knew how to bargain with the best. Had dear Indonesian friends. 

But I wasn’t Indonesian.

Every four years we came and spent a year in the country of my passport. America. 

I wasn’t sure I was American either.  

Old passports.
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Crossing Cultures Memoir

Names

Specific names. Or initials. Scribbled in ink. Indelible. On lined paper in plastic-bound journals bought at the local bazaar.

Thirty years later I’m reading the pages. Details about our encounters with them. 

Conversations. Situations.

Prayer requests recorded. Hospitalizations. Heartaches. Crises. Losses. Spiritual confusion.

Names scribbled in ink.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Making Disciples

Pray in the moment

Pray in the moment. 

Thoughts. Whispers. Walking conversations with the Father. 

During ordinary, daily tasks. 

At home or on the road. In school or at the office.

Wherever we go.

Pray in the moment. Image by Florian van Duyn on Unsplash.