Comments on: reverse culture-shock… or lack there of http://www.jillm.com/beyond/2007/06/reverse-culture-shock-or-lack-there-of/ Sat, 19 May 2012 09:35:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bill Kinzie http://www.jillm.com/beyond/2007/06/reverse-culture-shock-or-lack-there-of/#comment-6 Bill Kinzie Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:42:27 +0000 http://www.jillm.com/?p=4#comment-6 A belated welcome home. Jill! Thought I’d let you decompress a week or so and see what you were saying about it in your blog. It is easier for you to return because you were an adult going over to India. India and Mussoorie have deepened you…but you are returning before being too deeply changed. As an adolescent who had spent most of his life there…it was a real wrench for me. You have a beautiful way of expressing your ideas about your experience of the Christian “walk” or “journey”. I find them uplifting and inspiring, two words that are often overused. So…you’re back in Kansas, just about middle America as you can be. But, you have visions of the hill people of Garwhal, the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, and every now and then you will be reminded of that great experience by some triggering event, whether it’s a cup of tea, or the scent of mock orange blooms next Spring, or the whispering of the wind in a pine or deodar grove. Continue being your exulting self and know that you are blessing one way or another to all you encounter. A belated welcome home. Jill! Thought I’d let you decompress a week or so and see what you were saying about it in your blog.

It is easier for you to return because you were an adult going over to India. India and Mussoorie have deepened you…but you are returning before being too deeply changed. As an adolescent who had spent most of his life there…it was a real wrench for me.

You have a beautiful way of expressing your ideas about your experience of the Christian “walk” or “journey”. I find them uplifting and inspiring, two words that are often overused.

So…you’re back in Kansas, just about middle America as you can be. But, you have visions of the hill people of Garwhal, the majestic peaks of the Himalayas, and every now and then you will be reminded of that great experience by some triggering event, whether it’s a cup of tea, or the scent of mock orange blooms next Spring, or the whispering of the wind in a pine or deodar grove.

Continue being your exulting self and know that you are blessing one way or another to all you encounter.

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