Culture Shock

Getting used to the way things work here in Springfield has been quite an experience. I can say that a few families from the amazing church that I attend outside town have invited me into their homes and treated me nothing short of family. I've felt truly blessed by this display of hospitality and I believe that God will bless them for looking out for strays.

Culture shock...Thursday night I was downtown with a girl I work with and we were looking for a parking spot and this guy came up to the window of the car and kept trying to get our attention and roll the window down. So finally mildly freaked out she cracked the window and the guy was like "wait a second and I'll give you my parking spot...I'll move my car and you can take it". She rolled up the window and the only words that could be thought of at that moment was..."culture shock"... I've never seen that happen in Cincinnati. People in Ohio are kinder than many places that I've been to and experienced but the people here just initially meeting you are fairly forthcoming with the surface talk...going beyond the surface...I'll let you know later...hasn't happened yet.

Although I still haven't hit my place here yet, I can feel it approaching and then the light speed that happens afterward will come. I've come here to build the missions program but I have a feeling that my being here is for much greater things than what I'd even expected upon coming. I don't know what it is...but I just know that it is and it's blessed.