We’re somewhere over Japan or China…I’m not sure. But I know when I stepped foot again in Asia for the first time in ten years I felt a little giddy sigh of relief. Kind of like when you’re in a horrible rain storm on the highway and you get chills when you go under an overpass. (Or is that just me?) Whatever the feeling, it was a bit like coming home again. But this time around, instead of ‘’coming home”, we get to make Asia part of our home. We will be a part Thai family!
My hope for this blog is that it will serve as a means to update the loved ones in our lives (that’s you) on daily snippets and snapshots of our time in Bangkok as we carry out “Operation Caleb” by God’s amazing grace and power! And someday, how cool it will be for Caleb to have a record of his homecoming. I will also try to post some of the more personal and spiritual moments and lessons learned during our time here. I could already write a book.
SO – in keeping with my intention to keep it short – our travel has been graciously uneventful and on-time (praise God!) Our time leaving our kids was more peaceful and confident that I ever imagined. I honestly have never experienced so deeply the prayers of the saints specifically praying peace into my heart and mind like that. THANK YOU!! My dear friend Janet arrived and did the most beautiful job ever in getting my kids settled and excited about their time together. We couldn’t have asked for a better departure or travel experience thus far. Here are some things we’re thankful for in this trip:
1) Smooth travel and getting to sit together on a loooonnng extended date in the air
2) Time to rest, reflect and chill out (our brains hurt after all the details of preparation)
3) Berlitz World Traveler language learning system on our in-flight entertainment screen (we can count to ten in Thai now!)
4) A surprise 1000 Yen for the Tokyo airport I found in my travel wallet from 10 years ago! (And Greg gives me a hard time for hanging on to gift cards and things like that! See??)
5) Japanese toilets. Why don’t we have those in the States?
6) The wonderful perspective that world travel brings. This world is so big and so small all at the same time. And God knows the number of hairs on the heads of every person on this planet, speaks the language of their tongue and heart and loves them with His unbreaking, unchanging, never-stopping, always and forever love!
Reading your first post bring back a rush of memories. It is so much of what we felt :) Thank you for taking the time to post. We are praying for y'all.
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