Week 19

What's more important in ministry, your family's salvation or people's salvation? Ha! I wish that could be one of those easy answers with a "both." Is it worth saving the whole world and then having your wife and kids gone astray into the world? (“Nenhum sucesso na vida compensa o fracasso do lar.”) Last week I met a missionary couple in their 50’s, I guess. They always had a passion for missionary work but decided to postpone it. Their first priority was raising their children in the ways of the Lord. When the empty nest came, they started missionary work in several missionary fields. Was it worth missing the prior of their years at home and living a regular life? Family is a mission field, too.

Week 18

I spent the past two weeks with my Christian “extended” family in Texas. My days were busy with visits, many visits---hours of talking about all sorts of subjects. It was edifying after all.

I could visit people I planed to and people I really wished to visit but ended up missing (sorry!). A paragraph couldn’t describe the many good experiences during this furlough, which went by way too fast. Praises to our God!
Nevertheless, visiting my second spiritual home (ACU),

I came to a new place on campus called The Labyrinth, a Christian Labyrinth. It was a cold, raining afternoon, and by myself. This labyrinth was very well designed to teach the idea that our Christian walk is complex, sometimes puzzling and disorienting, but surely it has a beginning and should have an end, if one does not turn astray by missing the Christian virtues along the path. If you have a chance to stop by Abilene, go to ACU Labyrinth and walk on it! Then at the end stop, contemplate, and learn.
http://www.acu.edu/news/2009/090108_labyrinth.html