December 2011
4 posts
Coming Up on Christmas
For those who are wondering where we are spending Christmas, we have come out of the village for a couple weeks to share it with colleagues of ours. We are staying in Bamenda, a large city in the Northwest, and are consuming massive amounts of unhealthy, Christmas goodies. We arrived a couple days ago and were thrilled to see our friends. The other night, the kids saw a little advent lesson put...
Dancing Over Our Heads
We sleep in an essentially tranquil setting at night. There are no street lights coming in the windows and no cars driving by on busy streets, but there is the annoying sound of dancing over our heads…or maybe it is more like wrestling. Either way, we sporadically wake up in the night to hear the sounds of our unwanted guests overhead. It is not just rats, but bats and birds as well. Though...
Confession Time
Alright, I am going to share something that I am neither proud of nor trying to justify. I don’t shower every day. There it is. Out in the open. It is not that I don’t enjoy being clean, it just takes more effort and energy to bathe here.
In the States, you may have to wait a few seconds before the water heats up. Well, the only way you are getting anything but cold is if you take...
Ethnocentrism and Fearing God
For those who live in America, we don’t have a culture that really understands fearing an authority figure. We don’t have a king or chief and we are able to openly deride our President if we feel like it. Even our propensity towards nonchalant interactions leads to a lack of hierarchy. So when we come to passages in the Bible where it commands us to fear the Lord, we explain it away by...