Fragments from My Mind ...

It has been almost 3 ½ years since we first stepped out in faith to serve, abandoning all that was important to us back home.  And I (James) find myself asking the question, “So, how goes it?”

 

Funny… If someone had asked me 4 years ago in 2011, “What do you think your life will be like in 4 years?”  I probably would not have anticipated that I would be sitting in what has been called by some “the last frontier.”  Papua New Guinea is truly another world.  Sitting here in the midst of a myriad of cultures that still honor simple things such as stopping everything each day at 10am and 3pm for “tea time” or where people whom you know barely will stop and ask you questions about yourself and spend more than 15 minutes to get to know you—on the spur of the moment.

                                                             But, this is Papua New Guinea.

 

Do I miss back home?  Yes.  I miss my children dearly.  I miss our friends and worship at our church.  I miss the little ones in our church Sunday school.  Ah, yes the little ones who know how to remind me of what is important in life.  Perhaps, the most difficult part of this walk of faith has been understanding just that—it is a walk of faith.

  

Perhaps, you are wondering what all of this rambling is about.  I don’t know.  Except to say that we each have a path that the Lord has mapped out for us and unless we walk that path, we will never know why we were placed on earth.  Indeed, without knowing why the Lord formed us into existence, we can never begin to understand the price that Christ paid for us to live forever.

And so we trudge on—for the Kingdom!