PT/OT/Speech Therapy/Special Ed in East Asia
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Agape Love
This week the Sp!rit showed me more of G-d’s character of LOVE. (In a devotional series titled “Perfect Love: Maximum Joy Series”) In Greek, there are a few ways to describe LOVE: Eros love: body physical, selfish, getting Phile love: soul, emotional, half and half, getting and giving Agape love: spirit, spiritual, unselfish, giving the kind of love outlined in 1 John is agape love, which is the kind of love which is the very essence of G-d. This type of love is SO apparent in many of the parents of the children I work with. These kids have differing levels of cerebral palsy, which... Read more
Ups and Downs of Culture Shock
They say that culture shock hits hardest during the first few months while overseas. Though, considering covid-19 took over just about a few weeks after arriving to my field placement, I’ve barely even been able to interact with locals! So in that sense, I was more “eased” into the culture. Unlike one of my teammates who had to go to school and started early on with ministry work, I am only just now starting to get more hands on experience with the work I came here to do (though it’s still quite limited). At the moment things are almost back to normal though. This said, I’ve had a bit more... Read more