Ha! The resounding monotone of the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoons from my elementary years came to mind as I sat here to type. I'm beginning my first blog ever a little shortly after 4:39 a.m. on February 11, 2012. The time frame (4:00 in the morning) reminds me of my first ventures into China in 1998. As I prepared for my first flight, and trip into the PRC, I was awakened each morning, promptly, at 4:00, and used the time to draw closer in my walk with Christ through daily Bible study. This morning was different. I was awakened this morning around 2:00 unable to breath from a third round sinus infection. Feeling miserable, but needing to get some things accomplished, I decided that the gravity from standing upright might help me to breath better. In the meantime, I cleaned the kitchen. . .still not breathing better, but feeling better by doing something.
As I sit here, I am reminded of how much more we are able to hear in the silence of the early hours: the soft murmur of the refrigerator motor, the repetitive tick tock of the hands on the clock, the swish of the ceiling fan above my head (my laptop is sitting on my little portable desk in the kitchen), and that still small voice reminding me of not only China, but the job I am called to as a teacher. Lord give me the words to speak, the eyes to see, the ears to hear, the hands to reach out, endurance for the race. . .and the nose to smell. ~~Dr. D.
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