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Crossing Cultures Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

Taste of home

Favorite flavors and dishes multiply in the cross-cultural life.  Leading to this, that, or the other taste of home. 

Our grocery cart is often a wild mix. With differing ingredients for the week’s menus. 

One day, I buy okra and chickpeas for Indian curry. Snow peas, lemongrass and baby bok choy for a Chinese stir-fry dish. And Japanese mochi. An afternoon snack or dessert. 

Each cuisine serves up memories as well.

Nasi goreng plate with krupuk. Image by Iosi Pratama.
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Ocean roar

Ocean roar in winter. Loud. Waves cross. Crash. Deep blues and teals mixing. Mingling. Foaming white.

Gale-force winds whip through. Scattering sand. Tearing at the water. And me. 

Power on display.

And I am a mere whisper. Hushed.

Ocean roar. Image by Cesar Couto on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Best-laid plans

My mother’s response when things didn’t go as planned? 

I can hear it now. 

“The best-laid plans of mice and men…” her voice trails off. Not completing the quote from the poet, Robert Burns. 

But I know. And the words run through my head.

“…often go awry.”

Best-laid plans go awry. Image by Robert Linder on Unsplash.