What I learned

I might slowly be overcoming my typing trauma, so I think I could be able to answer the question I've been often asked after my trips to Paris and Marlow: "So, what did you learn there?"

I find this question quite hard to answer because the answer is not so tangible. I've learned so many different things in different areas; and it was not so much that I got incredible revelations...

The one thing that I remember well is how much I was amazed about the cultural differences. Not so much in Paris, of course, because it was all very international, but very much in England. How different the English and the Germans are even though they look similar and live so close. That culture is sooooo indirect; mine isn't at all. That has never been so clear to me before.
So, I guess one thing I learned is to have more empathy with people living in cultures that are not their own. I keep forgetting, though, but I definitely want to remember! Being nice to foreigners is not exactly a German virtue...

I learned to trust God's speaking more. This little voice, of which I'm sometimes not even sure if I heard correctly. It impressed me that scriptures etc. we had gotten in prayer preparing for France made total sense when we actually were in Paris. Something we hadn't seen before at all.

I learned how much I still want to make things happen in my own strength; and how much better and easier and joyful it is to do it God's way; and let Him do what is His job.

I learned to trust God more financially! He provided for the trips.

Maybe the most important thing is that I got a greater hunger to get His word out there. Although I still don't really know how to do it. And that I lost some of my fears.

This is a very incomplete list; but it may give you an impression. :)