Personal Development God's Way

I have just returned from a very long overdue trip to New Zealand. It has actually been close to 15 years since I was last in my home country.

My sister and family have visited me in the States twice during that time, so it was certainly my turn to make the trip. The original plan was to make this trip at Christmas time when it is summer over there.

However, this did not work out, so I opted for May when the New Zealand weather hopefully would not be too cold. My sister had several weeks vacation in May, so it would work out well.

Of course there were a lot of changes around the city of Christchurch, which I originally left back in 1976. Lots of progress and new things to discover as well as old things to rediscover.

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Can we really understand other cultures?

That’s quite a question. Why? If we could fully understand cultural differences, we would probably have the answer to a lot of the world’s problems!

Perhaps the real question should be, do we really WANT to understand other cultures?

There are certainly some very good keys that help us understand the different ways of thinking and different cultural traditions and ways of doing things.

One of the very big keys is language. Even when we speak the same language there are misunderstandings and conflicts.

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The challenges of life are always around. Even though now and again we do find spaces of time when all seems “smooth sailing”. Its usually not long before a new challenge shows up!

If you don’t find enough challenges in your life at home, I can guarantee you when you travel to a foreign field you will find all you need. First thing you will discover is this thing known as culture shock which mostly means “your way” of doing things is not the only “right way” in this world. If you have traveled at all, you will know what I mean.

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