A blog about travel, culture and finding joy in the journey!

When you move overseas, your life changes dramatically. Your expectations need to be tempered or you will become disappointed easily. You cannot expect things to happen instantly, or rely on any timeframe necessarily. And you cannot be self-sufficient, at least not to the degree that you were in your home country. Nothing can quite describe the feeling of helplessness I experience on a regular basis. Whereas in North America, there may be one person to do a particular job,

What are “devotions”? As a teenager, I thought of it as a book with verses, a short story, application and memory verse. Or a prayer list and Bible reading program to “check off.” Too often it is seen as something to do, rather than an action demonstrated towards Someone Worthy! Webster's 1828 dictionary defines it as follows: “A solemn attention to the Supreme Being in worship; a yielding of the heart and affections to God, with reverence, faith and piety, in religious dutie

I’ve mentioned before that the houses here are very “open concept.” Well, one of the side effects of having so many cracks and crevices is that small creatures can easily make your home their own. Our garage opened right into the house, and there is a good gap under the garage door, as well as slats, which made it easy access for these little guys. We have found at least three cockroaches in the garage. My husband puts a poison in front of the garage door, which usually kills