hellloooo everyone!!!! its me- Julia- and as some of you may already know, Im back in America! Before leaving Thailand, I was told that there was a chance that re-entry would be harder than I expected…. well- that was true. As easy as it was to slip back into those silly things (shopping, tanning, exercising, etc.) that make me feel “comfortable,” there was definitely no going around the processing and grieving period. As hard as I tried to avoid the uncomfortableness of talking through my emotions and dealing with the confusion and chaos of being back in a place...

   hellloooo everyone!!!! its me- Julia- and as some of you may already know, Im back in America! Before leaving Thailand, I was told that there was a chance that re-entry would be harder than I expected…. well- that was true. As easy as it was to slip back into those silly things (shopping, tanning, exercising, etc.) that make me feel “comfortable,” there was definitely no going around the processing and grieving period. As hard as I tried to avoid the uncomfortableness of talking through my emotions and dealing with the confusion and chaos of being back in a place...

I can’t believe it’s time again. Time to end a chapter of my life and time to begin a new one. This week, we started talking to our team about re-entry, a fancy word for going home, and a flood of emotions hit me. First hallelujah choruses rung through my mind, then I got sad, then I got overwhelmed, and then I got sentimental. I’ve “gone home” to America many times now from very similar (yet somehow, wildly different) seasons. The first two times prepared me for the next. But still, it’s really hard to plan for stuff like this. One would think that I would...

Cambodia filled me with joy. As we lived at an orphanage and taught English to 25 children for a month, it warmed my heart to see such passion and excitement in each kid as they were eager to learn a new word or phrase each day. Over the course of the month, my heart grew so much for these children. Maybe it was the fact that we were literally with them every hour of every day (there’s nothin like waking up to the smile of a child peering at you through a window right above your mosquito net), or maybe it was because each kid there was bursting with compassion, humor, and pure joy. But...

“Remember when this trip first started? Remember when you told your friends, fam, and supporters you would email and blog every week? Remember when one-on-one’s were fun and dealing with conflict a welcomed challenged? Remember when you didn’t grumble about eating white rice with every meal? Remember when waking u at 6am to spend time in the Word was easy? Remember when you didn’t wait to do a month’s worth of finances until the last second before they are due? Remember when working outside in the heat all day brought you a sense of accomplishment?” These...

“Remember when this trip first started? Remember when you told your friends, fam, and supporters you would email and blog every week? Remember when one-on-one’s were fun and dealing with conflict a welcomed challenged? Remember when you didn’t grumble about eating white rice with every meal? Remember when waking u at 6am to spend time in the Word was easy? Remember when you didn’t wait to do a month’s worth of finances until the last second before they are due? Remember when working outside in the heat all day brought you a sense of accomplishment?” These...