{"id":2416,"date":"2016-08-23T17:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2016-08-23T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:30:04","slug":"taiwan-mission-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/taiwan-mission-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan mission &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(I don&#8217;t know how many<a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/taiwan-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\"> parts<\/a> there will be in this series as I prepare for Taiwan Short Term Missions, from here on TW STM.)<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve always wanted to be a missionary, my greatest fear of the upcoming TW STM is that I won&#8217;t like it, or I can&#8217;t handle it physically, or I have no love for the people, and have to face the truth that my desire to be a missionary was all based on a fanciful dream. If that&#8217;s the case, then what do I do with my life?? I don&#8217;t want to go on cruises and &#8220;live out my retirement&#8221; on the proverbial golf course.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I can be useful for God anywhere. But I want an adventure. I&#8217;ve lived a safe life &#8211; and that&#8217;s all good. But I want just a little adventure in God&#8217;s Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I am ambivalent &#8211; why do I want to work so hard? Why don&#8217;t I just take it easy instead of taking on challenges?? I can easily stay within my comfort zone, stay in America and I will be happy serving at my church for many more years. And perhaps that&#8217;s where God wants me.<\/p>\n<p>So after all the analysis, I am content either way. I would like to live out my dream to be a missionary in a foreign country, but I am fine staying put. There&#8217;s plenty to do here that is a challenge to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;I have become all things to all people<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0so that by all possible means I might save some.&#8221; 1Cor 9:22<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I don&#8217;t know how many parts there will be in this series as I prepare for Taiwan Short Term Missions, from here on TW STM.) Since I&#8217;ve always wanted to be a missionary, my greatest fear of the upcoming TW STM is that I won&#8217;t like it, or I can&#8217;t handle it physically, or I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}