Reflection
Many of you know, or know people who know, that after a significant, challenging, spiritual experience that pushes you--you are reluctant to talk or even reflect seriously on your experience for some time. The length of your hesitance corellates to the significance of your experience.
I feel that I am only now coming to grips with my experience in Russia. It was a "big deal." Indeed, that was the only way I could describe it for the first few weeks after my return. Looking at the photos was of great help to me. It reminded me of the people that I met and all the things that we accomplished. Yesterday, Brian, Sam, and I were called into the CRWM office at "the Pentagon" and were debreifed and were asked for our highs and lows. That was also a help in aiding my reflection of this summer.
It already seems like such a long time ago. I ask myself, was I ever really in Russia? I greatly value this last summer. I will be reflecting on it for quite some time, I'm sure. We did some real good there; we forged some great friendships. And it will be the raw material for the building up of our souls.
Thanks so much for your support.
Ryan and the team
posted by Ryan @ 12:45 PM
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1 Comments:
thank YOU, Ryan, and all of you, for your willingness to serve God's kingdom this summer . . . it was really good to have you, Sam and Brian into the office . . . we are so grateful for your candid sharing and we are already talking about how we can make SMP an even better experience for future teams.
I think you are absolutely right that it will take some time to really grasp what went on . . . I also think that in some sense, we will not fully grasp the eternal impact until the day when we are face-to-face with our Savior.
Your posting here also reminds me of the struggle we have with how to really help and support SMPers with their "re-entry". Kathryn and I were in an excellent tele-class yesterday that had some interesting ideas that we think we can apply to this . . . and we welcome any ideas or suggestions any of you have about what would be helpful to you in "unpacking" your summer, also.
Blessings,
Lorraine
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