by Whitey | Feb 21, 2011 | Thoughts, Uncategorized
At our church we follow a Bible reading plan and share our thoughts via cell phone email. I’ve decided to share my thoughts on a blog as well, thus this new Poserous site. It will be a mix of Japanese and English. Here’s my first post…...
by Whitey | Oct 6, 2010 | Thoughts
A Japanese woman once explained why a Japanese would be reluctant to… accommodate a friendship with an expatriate. “If he asks you how long you intend to live in Japan and you say, ‘Ten years,’ you think that’s a really long time. But to...
by Whitey | Jun 14, 2010 | Thoughts
I’m beginning to realize that time is running short. If I’m to be in Japan by early August, there are a lot of things I need to get done between now and then. And since I’ll be away for most of July, I need to get a lot of that stuff done this week...
by Whitey | Sep 8, 2009 | Thoughts
This is the second article I’m re-posted from my former-former blog. This one’s dated December 14, 2006, and in it I talk about one of my favourite passages of Scripture and what it meant to me at the time. It still means a lot to me now, and is a good...
by Whitey | Sep 5, 2009 | Thoughts
I did an “archive dive” of my old blog (not this one, but this one) tonight, looking for something I wrote way back when. I found two things I wrote back in 2006 (when I was still in Canada preparing to come to Japan as a missionary). I thought these were...
by Whitey | Jun 18, 2009 | Thoughts
“They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead. But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town.” – Acts 14:19-20 (NLT) These words really stuck out to me the other day as I was reading the...
