{"id":2855,"date":"2019-04-14T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2019-04-14T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T05:07:26","slug":"learning-and-leaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/learning-and-leaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning and leaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another joyful Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Our Perspectives speaker was great. He already learned Gujarati, and now he wants to learn Japanese. He&#8217;s only a few years younger than me. Yet he wants to learn the language because he has a heart to reach the Japanese with the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time with language. I can barely speak English. I always think I&#8217;m too old to learn another language. I don&#8217;t even want to learn Chinese. I <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/culture-shock-and-stress\/\" target=\"_blank\">gave up the idea<\/a> of being a cross-cultural missionary.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker today gave me hope. He has 5 adopted children, homeschooled them, tutors at a mosque in order to reach Muslims, became a vegetarian in order to reach out to Indian International students, has a ministry to Chinese scholars at Caltech, just finished his doctorate, and now he wants to learn Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>He gave me hope. If God wants you to do something, he will enable you. I have found this to be true in my life, but I&#8217;ve never experienced this with learning a language. But then maybe I never asked God to help me. I&#8217;ve never tried. There are always more urgent things to do. Maybe it&#8217;s a matter of priority and intentional effort. Maybe it&#8217;s having the confidence to lean on God to help me if I really believe this is what he wants me to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another joyful Sunday! Our Perspectives speaker was great. He already learned Gujarati, and now he wants to learn Japanese. He&#8217;s only a few years younger than me. Yet he wants to learn the language because he has a heart to reach the Japanese with the gospel. I have a hard time with language. I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}