My Life By a Snapshot

Hi there, I moved here to Cambridge, Ontario, Canada just over five months ago from Battambang, Cambodia where my family serve as missionaries. I lived there with them and serving with them for about three and a half years. So, when I moved back to the west I prepared myself for re-entry and reverse culture shock. I wrote a whole post about it too. Click here to read it. But after five months of living here how have I adapted?  In my original blog post, I wrote about disorientation and disassociation. That has definitely stayed the same. Well, the disorientation went away but I definitely still disassociate. I have many homes; Australia, Cambodia, Texas, Quebec, Ontario. Home to me is more about the people, the familiarity and the way I feel safe in a place. It’s more about how I feel than actual place itself. Each of my homes are extremely separated in my mind. It’s almost as if they don’t exist simultaneously. I’m not sure why this happened. I tend to be very present whe...

Hi, My older sister, Jordy, and I just spent the past month in Japan. I had written a whole blog post about some of the things we had done in Japan. But after I had written it I had some good conversations, read some other blog posts and decided to write about something a little deeper and way more important. Instead of writing about the adventures and places we went I decided to write about the church in Japan. The churches in Japan are suffering!!! You heard me right. The churches in Japan are really suffering at the moment. Their numbers are dwindling and missionaries are becoming few and far between. This problem is far more tragic than any of the tragic natural disasters that have hit the country in the past. This problem has eternal repercussions.  The country has often been called "The Missionary Graveyard"! So, what's going wrong? Why is this happening? Our view of Mount Fuji by from our picnic spot. First of all, let me start this out by saying that Ja...