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Ordinary

Posted on Sunday, December 4, 2016

One year in, and it is bizarre to think about the things that have become ordinary. Buildings in several shades of brown, ranging from once-glorious to yet-unfinished. Streets occupied by a donkey-driven cart, a tuk-tuk, a motorcycle, a microbus that looks weeks, days, hours from falling apart. Drinking coffee in bright plastic chairs in the street, watching soccer with strangers in a language that is inching towards familiarity. Answering the well-worn script of questions about why I'm here and how I've come to speak this language. 

There are things I can see in myself that are more here than there, and I wonder what means for when I go back. It's been a cool, if not sometimes rocky, ride to see where He's taken me in this past year, and I am looking forward to see where we'll go in this next year. I am not alone in this journey, and I will not be alone when I go home. It is remarkable to see what has become ordinary, and to see how, with Him, the ordinary can become remarkable. 

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