Tag: thanksgiving celebrations

• Thankful for Diarrhea

  

  I awoke to a sharp pain in my stomach.  It was the middle of the night in a rural and remote Asian village. The house was cold. Of course it was, it stood on stilts and there were no doors or windows. Speaking of which there were no bathrooms or latrines either. Not a single…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  November 26, 2013

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  Asia, asian, Being, breathtaking, crap, Creator, diarrhea, Doing, evangelism, Faith, Global Missions, Glory, God, Good News, goodness, Gospel, Holiday, hygiene, John Piper, Knowing, latrines, lost, Missional, Missions, open defecation, Poetry, remote villages, sanitation, satisfaction, scenery, Southeast Asia, thankfulness, thanksgiving celebrations, Travel, unsaved, village life, Worldview

• Asians Shouldn’t Believe in Santa

  

  Holidays are much too over-rated in the West.  I think my disappointment began with Thanksgiving. In elementary school we traced turkeys with our hands, had mashed potatoes, gravy and cornbread in the cafeteria and learned about pilgrims on field trips – what better place to see pilgrims than the Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.  All…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  December 26, 2011

  Asian Faith

  plastic christmas, refugee parents, thanksgiving celebrations, western traditions