A life overseas takes us to the edge of our known world and into an unknown world. In ancient times cartographers would draw dragons and sea monsters on maps to mark the delineation of distant and unexplored territory. When we move overseas we find ourselves off the edge of the map of our comfort zone, knowledge, and experience.
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The baby stirs in her crib. It’s still in our room because the carpenter made it an inch too wide and it can’t fit through the door to her room which is, for some reason, more narrow than the other doors in the house. We were up most of the night. 40 hours of traveling back to our Asian home from the US has us all trading colds and coughs and fevers.
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Do you remember the early days of your cross-cultural journey? Maybe those days when you were packing and announcing your plans to friends and family and saying some hard good-byes. But those goodbyes were overshadowed by the excitement to come, the realization of a life of significance, the answer to a call,
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