Just a Thought: Reentry and Transitioning Home

Back in 2014 when I went with River Valley Church on Global Project Thailand, I remember being quite surprised by the process of reentry, returning from “field” work to home base. Since I’d been to both Thailand and to Minneapolis before (where I met my team and spent a month in Polar Vortex weather =| […]

Letting Go to Weariness

Tuesday, February 4, 2:42 p.m. – Day 4 in the States post Thailand After doing, doing, doing… After going, going, going… He says to me, “Rest.” I sit here (a term I use loosely as I am propped up against pillows in a position somewhere between vertical and horizontal) simply wiped out. Wiped out by […]

Culture. Shock. In. Staccato.

Feb 11, 1:13p In-N-Out LA Reentry. Jet lag. Culture shock. Whatever moniker you use to describe the cocktail of experiences that go on when you return from being in a foreign country for any great length of time, well, I’m experiencing it for sure. Overwhelming. That was the first word that came to mind while […]