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My Week Without Mirrors

July 8, 2013
Adventures
Reflections

Two weeks ago my team and I took a four hour ride into rural northern Thailand where the village, Mae Ai is tucked between mountains and rice paddies. When we were first notified that we would be leaving the "comforts" of Chiang Mai, and trading them for mosquito nets and squatty pottys, I naturally panicked. I assumed that the lack of cleanliness, the bugs, the labor and language barrier would all be too much for me (and at some points they were). I made the decision to keep my head down and trudge through, all the while closed off to the experience as a whole. This decision of...

Sometimes, you just gotta…

Sometimes, you just gotta… Jump into the pool at the base of a waterfall. Sometimes, you just gotta… Stand on chairs as a team and declare truth from Jesus. Sometimes, you...

I’m enough

Last week we took a 4 hour car ride into the north of Thailand. Our destination: a Thai village by the name of Mae Ai. I never thought I’d be back there. Just like I never thought I’d be back here in Chiang Mai. We pulled up to Pa’s house. It was strange to see the blue house down the street that my team had painted last time I was here. Everything seemed to be smaller. I walked into the yard of Pa’s house and my house mom saw me. She yelled, put her hands over her mouth, yelled something again, started...

I suck at missions.

Seriously though guys, I am horrible. It's funny how i thought that because i had been on 3 missions trips before, all about a week and a half long, that I thought I knew all there was to know about missions. Don't drink the water, don't throw the toilet paper in the toilet, be careful of your hand motions, don't affirm the 'loud American' stereotype, be ready for plans to change 15 times a day, even if food looks and/or tastes nasty do not let whoever made it for you know that, etc…. I figured I needed to let everyone know that I had done this before, I knew...

beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder

I have legitimately started and erased this blog three times now, so obviously it is sort of a hard one to write… You are beautiful. Whenever someone tells me this I come up with a joke or make an excuse for why they are saying these three words to me. I can’t think of a time in my life where I truly received these words and believed them about myself, even when Jesus is telling them to me. The other night someone gave me a word from the Lord that was basically Him telling me how beautiful I was in a very eloquent and extravagant way. I, being the stubborn and hardheaded girl I...

“Closing Time” and “Revelation Song” on the Same iPod

July 3, 2013
Adventures
Reflections

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson After spending a week in the beautiful village of Mai Ai (see above picture) and enjoying a few days of "debriefing" (a fancy word for taking a break from ministry upon passing the halfway point of the trip to ride elephants, go bamboo rafting, and eat way too much pizza), we began normal life in Chiang Mai again today. Rumor had it that there was a temple that had "meet a monk" time each day. And...

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