Go into the world and…
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[Written by Nicol]
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Shaking my blanket
[GROWING OUT OF YOUR CULTURE] “Time to sleep!” I take my empty tea cup to the kitchen and drag my feet to the bathroom to go and brush my teeth. I always have to force myself to bring that toothbrush to my mouth, because once I am ready for bed my head just really wants to…
Continue readingFrozen to death
[ALMOST FORGETTING ABOUT POVERTY] “Yes, I can finally see the airport!” From the airplane window I can see a tiny little building in the middle of nowhere. The building is covered with a deep orange glow from the early morning sunrise. After almost 24 hours of traveling from door to door, I am so ready…
Continue readingBeing a missionary is…
[THE UNSEEN AND INTERNAL BATTLE OF MISSION LIFE] Being a missionary is… Screaming to God from the mountaintops (literally) with your fists up in the air and tears running down your face. Jep, just now I came back from one of those wrestle-sessions with God (something similar to Jacob in the Bible who was wrestling…
Continue readingFrom the shop to the car…
[FACING NEEDS EVERYWHERE YOU GO] For a few weeks now we haven’t been able to do a proper grocery shopping. With that I mean a shopping that will last you for the whole week. Our favorite shop (a cheap Mega shop) is all the way at the other side of town, and we just don’t…
Continue readingLogic
[YOUR LOGIC OR MINE] Logic…a word so familiar to our vocabulary and something we (or at least most of us) structure our lives around. In school we are taught to reason, and out of that make “logical” decisions. However, coming to live in Africa the word “logic” didn’t seem so logical anymore. Let me give…
Continue readingMy missionary story
[DID I CHOOSE MISSIONS OR DID MISSIONS CHOSE ME] Where does my story begin? Well, a few years ago when I was sitting in my room the clouds started opening up, lightning came down and a voice told me, “Go, you are called for missions”… Okey, that is not true. Well, then maybe I always…
Continue readingThis tv is bigger than mine
[CAN MISSIONARIES HAVE GOOD THINGS?] Our first year as missionaries we barely had anything. We had zero monthly sponsors, drank water and tea the whole day, were able to eat cheese on our bread once a week, didn’t have a car, a couch, a bed, or a tv or anything else in that line. As…
Continue readingThink of me when you eat tonight
[DO I GIVE OR DO I NOT?] “Think of me when you eat tonight”…What do I mean? Don’t worry, I am not talking about having to think of “me” when you eat tonight. This is something that some teenage girl recently said to me. “Seriously, why would she say that?” Doesn’t it make all the…
Continue readingFive minutes before eleven
[BURNING OUT] I am laying on the bed, looking at the alarm on the side table. It says 10:55… “Five more minutes before leaving”. I am trying not to panic. I am closing my eyes, desperately attempting to think about nothing and hoping that when I open my eyes the clock will still say 10:55.…
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