Faithful in the Mundane…

So, to be honest the title of this post isn’t really related to anything deep and spiritual. I’m transferring all my photos from albums into photo storage boxes – hopefully reducing the space taken to about 1/3 or 1/4 of what it was previously. I have about 1400 photos in albums, and haven’t printed any in at least three years, but its still a pretty boring job. So, I’m blogging in the middle of the last 400 photos.

 I’m home. It’s a bit of a mix of emotions right now… I’m loving sleeping in my sisters bed (double. proper mattress. electric blanket. need i say more?) and her room, even though its a half an hour haul to Lower Hutt. I miss YWAM and the YP… I love being back in the prayer room, except now I hang out around the world map a lot more. It suddenly seems like there’s a lot more places I want to go… and that the world is smaller, cos I know more people and connect to more places.

Not sure what I’m going to be doing next… right now I’ve just been bumming around and applying for jobs but I think I may go see if I can find a short-term retail job in Lower Hutt. Minimum wage went up to $11.25 so I should be able to find decent pay, even if its not what I’d get in an office… I’m not sure, office or retail. Retail is people, I like people. usually. And it’d be mor eflexible.

 So, sorting thru all my stuff… trying to get my life in order and shrunk down (far too many boxes.) and work out my long-term living situation… loving Jesus, hanging with people, and wallet is lost… great…

Transitioning…

Today is the end of phase 2 and the beginning of phase 3 of DTS: re-entry.

Phase 1 was lecture phase… 107 young adults turned up in Perth, Australia… some of us expected to spend all day at the beach, some of us expected some sort of biblical training, but I’m pretty sure none of us knew exactly what we were getting ourselves into. We opened ourselves up in front of each other, our lives were shaken out by the Lord, and we prepared for phase 2…

Phase 2 was outreach… 9 teams headed off to India, Mongolia, South Africa and Indonesia. I came to India where I’ve been for 79 days… attempting to preach the gospel, integrate into a culture, and not die while crossing the street. It’s been hard to be here… I think I’ve learnt, I think I’ve grown… and now phase 3 begins…

Phase 3: We fly out of Hyderabad International Airport tonight, and return to Perth… then we have a week in Perth of classes and preparing to go home, and I fly out on the 23rd at 12.50am. This is when all that I’ve done in the last six months since I was in New Zealand comes to a point… how I integrate into life at home, how well I carry the values that have been taught to me, what I choose to do with my life. I’m wildly excited to get home… but also nervous, because things change, people change… and I’m not quite sure how it’s going to end up.