An excerpt from p. 208 in the paperback version:
“…I came up with a new definition of faith: paranoia in reverse. A truly paranoid person organizes his or her life around a common perspective of fear. Whatever happens feeds that …
It’s November and though I try to practice the discipline of gratitude throughout the year, this is what I’m particularly thankful for right now:
We worked hard to get here. Meetings and conversations in Japanese, enlisting friends who speak English and Japanese, filling out about 15 pages of forms, getting denied at two preschools because they are full, taking her temperature, marking her face …
1. I don’t always use an umbrella. This is basically a cardinal sin here. If you want to see people really nervous, walk around in the rain without an umbrella. Even if it’s not raining very hard, very kind people …
Fabio and I preached twice last Sunday – once from English to Japanese and the other with me from English to Portuguese and Fabio translating (with others then translating from Portuguese to Japanese). I was especially moved by one of …
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