It’s always nice to get asked to do something you’d like to do anyhow. I was recently asked to go down to Bangkok to help some friends with a move. I’d been wanting an opportunity to see some of my friends in Bangkok.
I’ve now started and deleted a few paragraphs trying to say how much I enjoyed my time in Bangkok. It is tricky to explain without giving the wrong impression. I enjoy hanging out with Thai friends in Ubon; I like using and improving my Thai; but it was nice to just sit back and joke around in English. I like my Christian friends in Ubon and I value diversity in my interactions, diversity of age, marital status, nationality, etc; but wow was it nice to spend a few evenings with other young, single, American, Christian folks. I rejoice when I see Thai Christians being Christian in Thai ways; it make me sad when I see Thai Christians distancing themselves from other Thais by taking on Western forms of “Church;” but it was rejuvenating to be a part of an amplified, guitar-drum-keyboard, (there’s a word I’m missing here) worship time.
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