Home Sweet Home

We arrived home from our 11 day vacation trip in China at 2 am on Monday morning. Our travels have ended, but my sabbatical leave continues through August 15. Though this is a blog about my sabbatical experiences, I will highlight our time in China in an entry in the next couple of days. In the Rome airport as we awaited our flight to Beijing, I told a young man heading home to Pyongyang, Korea that I was going to China " to look, listen, and learn." And we did.

The remainder of my sabbatical learning will involve working with graphic design, visual arts, worship planning, and some personal re-entry into the culture of our community. It is amazing how, in six weeks of living and experiencing other cultures, I began to adopt and adapt parts of all of them. Even more than before, I can now think globally and act locally!

It is good to be home with our family, dogs, and familiar surroundings, but I will never be the same!