It's hard to understand what it's like to live in a foreign country, day after day, until you are there. Your brain is constantly on overdrive, but yet the harder you push the pedal, the less you seem to understand. Everything is strange and foreign and difficult. Restaurants, streets, post offices, habits, even bathrooms.....everything is different.
Sometimes it's bearable. But then, there are other times when all you want to do is to be able to understand. Times when any comment, any incident, however trivial, is monumental. Living in a foreign country, humor is one of the first casualties. Humor doesn't translate through a language barrier. I can't tell you how many times I've been the only one not laughing among a group of Koreans. Likewise, when I crack jokes there is silence.
The big tragedy is that, while humor is often the first to go, it's one of the most important things to keep. That's when God sends His grace in the form of the unexpected. You know what I'm talking about....when someone says or does something completely unexpected, and it makes us bust out laughing. We all need laughter in our lives. So when the stress of life is getting to you, ask God to help you loosen up. Stop taking yourself - and everyone around you - so seriously. Learn to actually enjoy life again.
23 Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
Sometimes it's bearable. But then, there are other times when all you want to do is to be able to understand. Times when any comment, any incident, however trivial, is monumental. Living in a foreign country, humor is one of the first casualties. Humor doesn't translate through a language barrier. I can't tell you how many times I've been the only one not laughing among a group of Koreans. Likewise, when I crack jokes there is silence.
The big tragedy is that, while humor is often the first to go, it's one of the most important things to keep. That's when God sends His grace in the form of the unexpected. You know what I'm talking about....when someone says or does something completely unexpected, and it makes us bust out laughing. We all need laughter in our lives. So when the stress of life is getting to you, ask God to help you loosen up. Stop taking yourself - and everyone around you - so seriously. Learn to actually enjoy life again.
Ephesians 6:21-24
21 Tychicus, the dear
brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so
that you also may know how I am and what I am doing. 22 I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you. 23 Peace to the brothers and sisters, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.
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