{"id":383,"date":"2007-03-29T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=383"},"modified":"2007-03-29T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T03:38:16","slug":"im-back-but-not-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"i’m back but… not completely"},"content":{"rendered":"

hello all. first, if you haven’t already read my africa experience<\/a> post – i really encourage you do so. it’s super long but for now it is the best way i can personally share my africa mission experience.<\/p>\n

as amazing as this trip was, i brought home a lot more than souvenirs. in fact, i would like to share with you my current struggle. the struggle of re-entry. i guess the best way of explaining how i feel is to tell you in what ways i am struggling:<\/p>\n

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  1. My attitudes toward wealth, consumption and stewardship – the American way<\/li>\n
  2. The ways our individual choices as well as the policies of our government affect the world<\/li>\n
  3. Christianity in other cultures and around the world<\/li>\n
  4. Issues of justice, including what it means to “pursue justice” as a Christian<\/li>\n
  5. My inability to speak about my experience coherently<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    we were told to expect difficulty when re-entering our lives back home in the States but i didn’t take much of what was said to us to heart because, well, frankly i didn’t expect to be affected this much.<\/p>\n

    God’s awesome and I have a new-found passion for my Creator in a way that is incomprehensible, but I am struggling with where He has me. I guess you could say that i am almost upset that His direction and prompting led me to go to a place that turned my life upsidedown – with little understanding of what i can do about it. i saw so much and experience so much that i am still processing it. i can’t form coherent sentences and talk to people about my experience because it’s so overwhelming.<\/p>\n

    I don’t want to forget or relinguish any of what i saw or experienced, but I do want to be able to function and feel like what i do HERE matters too. I want clarity and peace in where He wants me to go from here. do i go or do i stay? how do i know? apparently, i have a passion and a calling on my life, but who knew?<\/p>\n

    i guess it is super hard to explain unless you can relate. i’m rambling. so, if you have mission experiences and can share how you dealt with this process, i would greatly appreciate it. through scriptures, prayers, songs, stories, anything.<\/p>\n

    everyone: i covet your prayers right now.<\/p>\n

    love you.
    \nCrystal<\/p>\n

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    hello all. first, if you haven’t already read my africa experience post – i really encourage you do so. it’s super long but for now it is the best way i can personally share my africa mission experience. as amazing as this trip was, i brought home a lot more than souvenirs. in fact, i… Continue reading i’m back but… not completely<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa-mission","category-box-of-chocolates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}