Pre-Africa Thoughts

Posted in Reflections, Stateside by Nathan Clendenin on August 1st, 2005

I’ve had many different thoughts in the past week or so in anticipation of this last leg of summer. This is the part that really matters and in many ways the part I’ve been preparing for. I have many thoughts and ideas in my head about what it will be like, but I’m also realizing things may utterly surprise and shock me. At the church service here in London this Sunday, worshipping among a crowd of strangers who welcomed me, I realized that in a week I’d be worshipping with another quite different crowd who no doubt will also welcome me. I look forward to joining in their worship, seeing a different part of the diverse body of the church. I spoke with my host today on the telephone (well, I was on Skype) and they are excited to see me and will be at the airport waiting for me. I have no doubt they will be wonderful hosts to me in many different ways. I just have to make it there on a 12 hour flight! My flight into London from Santiago was twenty minutes early, by the way, so I’m 7/7 on irregular timings and I hope the upward swing keeps moving upward, shaving time off this flight and the one coming back.

You may not hear from me until the weekend, but I promise to post something as soon as I can.

“The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” -Frederick Buechner

Originally posted on Vicarious Summer Blog