going home soon

Going back to Singapore in 3 days’ time. Amongst other work-related meetings is to meet up with Uncle George, our pastor. As we have crossed the 2 year mark of our time in Cambodia, we will be discussing about the next step after the 3-year term ends in March 2007.

What’s next? Honestly I am not sure. Part of us want to stay – things are in the beginning stages, and stability is good – developing our local colleagues in their spiritual journey and in their social work and counseling skills takes time. We are coming along somewhat in our Khmer language and humanly speaking it is a waste to leave.

Yet there is a side of us that long for home too. Long for the familiarity of Singapore – where family and friends are; where we know how things work and they work (e.g. electricity, police and justice system, etc.) Elijah misses the stimulating conversations he could have with colleagues about counseling and work and ministry stuff. I miss reading the newspapers and going to the library to just browse and to walk around the shopping malls just to chill out. And who doesn’t miss laksa and char kway teow?

Written before dinner time, 9 April 2006.

Grace