Last Day of Tibetan Road Trip # 2
Just 8 days after it began, the 2nd Tibetan Road Trip of the summer is over. The week has been tiring, but the time has flown by. We covered a combined total of nearly 2,000 miles, most of which were…
Tibetan Road Trip #2 – Day 6
Well, we are on our way home, but still won’t make it back to where my wife, mother, and baby Gabriel are staying until tomorrow evening. Today has been much more rainy than the past few days. We left at…
Tibetan Road Trip #2 – Day 5
We have finally reached the farthest point from home that we will go on this trip. We are so far south on the Tibetan Plateau that we are closer to India (just a few hundred miles) than we are to…
Tibetan Road Trip #2 – Day 3
Day 1 of this trip was chronicled in the last blog. Day 2 was a day of rest and catching up with old friends. We didn’t really go anywhere, but we had dinner and fellowshipped with a family of fellow…
Tibetan Road Trip # 2
Well, yesterday was the 1st day of another grueling road trip into the heart of the Tibetan Plateau. We left at 5 p.m. from our home town and drove until after midnight to our next destination. The trip took us…
Whispering Pines
Today we were blessed with the opportunity to visit a very beautiful local park with two Chinese friends of ours. I had heard about this park many times, and had passed by on the main highway twice before, but had…
Of Faith and Fear
We have not been given the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind. Fear is such a common thing in so many of our lives that I think we have all but become accustomed…
Wisdom, Good Decisions
If you were to ask me what my biggest prayer request was, I would almost certainly say without delay that I need prayer for more wisdom to make truly Christ-like decisions each and every day. For me, this has always…