Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Returning tomorrow



November 10, 2009


After a long journey, I returned to my homeland to find...


I leave Japan tomorrow. It has been a long, arduous 18 months, and though I intended my first term on the field to be longer, difficulties have been used by the hand of providence to thrust me home sooner. In the states, I hope to refresh myself, reconnect with my supporters, and raise up prayer and laborers and support. And get married, if I can within 5 months. That one seems unlikely at the moment.


But oh, the uncertainty that grips me righ now. I have some vague plans of my stay, but I do not know what awaits me there. I do not know what God has planned for me. I do not know if the odiousness of my own culture shall drive me to insanity or if I shall weep with joy at the pleasure of finding myself once again in familiarity. I do not know if I shall be isolated to extremity or enthralled by the warm embrace of friends. The future is dark, but I am thine, Oh Lord.


I return to the land of my birth which is no longer home.

2 comments:

KevinC said...

what will you be doing then?!

Unknown said...

Staying in the states till about April next year, then going back to Japan... I'll be doing language school and working with a church or some missionaries, but not exactly sure where, besides the Tokyo area.

Let me know if you come to CA.