Okay, I know that life won’t be normal again now that we’re parents. But at least there should be a new normal that doesn’t involve being gone every night (or globe-trotting, or spending entire weeks at church with teen mission teams, or decorating for VBS, or…). The three of us REALLY need to get away. Soon.

Well, as you can tell, I made it back from Nigeria, and without having to count my head as one piece of my allotted carry-on luggage (hand baggage, to the Brits). An amazing trip, not fun but good. (Fun was not the purpose of the trip). Two things I’ve learned (at least) upon returning: 1) We Americans take everything for granted **yeah, yeah, Zeb. Everyone says that. IT’S TRUE!!!** and 2) “normal” life here, even when busy, seems somehow mundane and trivial compared to overseas missions work and observing how the other 80% live.

I was briefly discussing this with Joyce last night - it’s not a feeling you can ever completely describe, it has to be experienced. Almost imperceptibly, Africa changes you, and you can never be the same again. I hope that’s a taste of eternity with Christ: nothing, nothing, nothing else can ever quite match up to it. Not food, not alcohol, not lust, not busy-ness, not Sunday School, not institutional church, maybe worship, maybe _authentic_ prayer, but not the dancing bear act that we call church.

And now for something completely different: Isaac - 13w3d, 12#2

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