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Christmas Crossing Cultures Memoir

City Christmas

Christmas season. Spent last year in a world-class city. One of our favorites.

All shiny and bright. Perfect lights. Colors on point. 

Christmas soundtrack playing continually. In stores. And on the streets. Everywhere.

In an Asian city.

City Christmas. Image by Tobi on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Sing to Me

“Just sing to Me.”

Memory rises up. From twenty years ago. 

I’m traveling in the river of motorcycles and public transport vehicles. Cars and buses. All pressed together in the rush of a mountain city’s traffic. 

Navigating the ebb and flow as I drive. Mentally engaged. But not. 

Thoughts drift far away. Heart sits heavy. 

All around me, the hum and blare of engines revving, horns blowing, peddlers calling.

Sing to me. Image by Iqro Rinaldi on Unxsplash.
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Devotional Making Disciples Memoir

Worship

Worship. In a small house group, I watch one woman sing with such joy. Tears, even. 

Midlife at the time, I’ve fallen into unhealthy patterns.  Critiquing content and structure. Or impatience with those leading in services and retreats. 

Prideful. And forgetting priority. 

Losing focus of the One we worship.

Worship. Image by Priscilla du Preez on Unsplash.