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Feelings of Wonder | Saturday, March 29, 2008


This should be my third time to Kazakhstan and by this time, I should be adjusted to the place and culture by now but strangely it was not so, and I now experience my first culture shock surprisingly enough.

This trip was so much different from the other two trips that I have made earlier last year because on my two previous trips, there were people with me, to cushion off the loneliness such as Andy and Yanhui plus the local staff over there and thus, I always enjoyed my first two trips there but this time round, I am all alone as there are no people with me and that the local staff have all quit, one by one and thus, I am left alone, all by myself. Yet even at such a time as this, God remains faithful and that He is always by my side and that He preserves and takes good care of me even when I think I am alone, yet His presence is always there with me and what more could I ask and expect more for if God is with me, who can be against me?

I could only rely on the grace of God and no one else for my time here in Kazakhstan. Yes, I do experience loneliness and certainly, I do experience times of homesickness and missing my loved ones and yet, it was at this time that God's presence surrounds me and that I would not trade anything for such a time as this because I cannot rely on anyone else but only on the grace of God for only His grace can pull me through in this difficult time.

What keeps me going at this point is only because of His promises to me and the things He has shown me. I could catch a glimpse of why Abraham continues to believe in God even when the odds against him is so great and the obstacles to his faith are so many and yet he perservers on because he sees God as the ONE who is just and fiathful and whose words will not return to Him void and for the same reason, I must press on no matter what happens for He is faithful to me and how could I remain faithless to him? That will not do at all and so I will rely on Him, day by day and hour by hour for I really do need Him.

May I have happy news to write till next time. God bless and do take care.
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