Just a brief post to send Christmas wishes to everyone back home and abroad. Celebrating the birth of Christ is shaping up to look very different for Carol and I this year. We arrived at Lonely Beach on the island of Koh Chang in Thailand last night after dark with no place booked to stay, but were fortunate to snag the last room in a most beautiful and cozy place on the beach. Christmas Eve has been spent enjoying sunset swims, defective fireworks (no one caught on fire, but it was very exciting) on the beach, pad thai, cheezy party music, walks on the beach, and third place in a pub quiz. However, even with all these nontraditional happenings, it is comforting to know that the significance of the celebration doesn't change just because of our circumstances. It reminds us that the God we trust doesn't change because of our circumstances either, and we take enormous comfort in that fact, considering the past five months have been a whirlwind of changing locations, languages, currencies, landscapes, and cultures for us.
More details on our stay in Thailand will come later (including the Most Unforgettable Fifteen Hour Layover in Bangladesh Ever), but until then...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
- Joe & Carol
Merry Christmas, Joe and Carol!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas. We miss you two. You're been on our hearts and in our conversations a lot lately.
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