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On The Road Again

Well, once again I find myself sitting in an airport terminal, but so far everything is running on time. I am on my way to Bangkok again, and then next week I am off again to the Philippines. Hopefully, my recent travel problems have filled my bad travel experience quota for the next few decades and everything will stay on time. Of course as I sit working on this complimentary computer in the Bangkok Airlines lounge, I can see CNN on the TV mounted on the wall carrying footage of a major plane crash near Athens, Greece. Always interesting to see the way reality coments on itself in a somewhat surealistic way.

I have been listening to teaching books by both Anthony Campolo (A Reasonable Faith) and Philip Yancey (What's So Amazing About Grace?). Surprisingly, these two books, written about 20 years apart, tend to touch on two sides of the same coin. One is all about grace (obviously) and one is (at least partly) about the dicotamy between love and power. It has really struck me how grace and love really work together in a way that is impossible to seperate.

I will eventially be writing more about that later, but this has been a big part of my thinking over the last few days, especially as I drive down the road and try to imagine what is happening in the lives of the Cambodian people I pass. I must admitt, the more I do that, the more I realize that no matter how long I have been here I am still a foriegner, and only understand a portion, a small portion, of what the thoughts and dreams of the average Cambodian are.

Well, they are boarding my flight now, so I will write more later.

posted by Troy In Cambodia @ 6:57 PM