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      <image:title>Blog - Last Daze in Suva - What adds to that ache is that we had an inexplicable power outage that effectively smashed all sense of normalcy to smithereens.</image:title>
      <image:caption>The power company shut off the power on Friday and half the team left for greener pastures (i.e. Airbnb), leaving us to walk around with our iPhone flashlights in a giant empty haunted missionary house. Tough to sleep without A/C or white noise from a fan. Oh, and the toxic smoke from the renewed dumpster fire came back to say goodbye. We had a few ugly days of sweating, migrating bedrooms, and making do with whatever food was left in the fridge.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Last Daze in Suva - Highs, lows, laughter, confusion, and spiritual intensity — all unfolding in the sweltering darkness of our powerless house.</image:title>
      <image:caption>I can say without a doubt that we will never forget Fiji. With the intensity of outreach, our 6.5-week home truly did start to feel like home. I don’t know what trick of the mind makes every place where we sleep a few nights feel like home but I’ve noticed it happens all the time. Wherever we are is home after a few days. But Fiji was deeper.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>As close as Suva gets to having a beach…</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Fiji - I found that we got used to things quickly, maybe too quickly.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A couple of nights into the outreach, someone set a dumpster on fire at the end of our street. The toxic smoke blew over to our house. It did that for a couple of days at least and then stopped. It was lit on fire again a week later. It’s the neighbourhood’s trash disposal, even though we have regular trash pick-up. Those fumes can cause permanent damage obviously and initially we were all shocked. Then we learned to close the windows.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Fiji - And now we have kids.</image:title>
      <image:caption>So, we did not know what the kids would be like here. I’m happy to report that our kids are rising to the occasion and we are all being baptized or re-baptized into the reality that the Western world is not like the rest of the world. The wider world is not very much like Supernatural British Columbia. The massive swaths of uninhabited land in B.C. and the towering peaks of mountain ranges are far away right now.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Over time I’ve come to see that there’s nothing broken about reality and nothing wrong with the expectations themselves. They just rarely line up perfectly. Expecting a future that feels exactly the way I imagined it is a bit like believing in unicorns or dragons—beautiful in theory, but not how the world actually works. These days, I try to keep my expectations simpler and looser. Instead of clinging to a detailed script, I focus on the broader good stuff: connection, moments of joy, feeling alive. I’ve learned to let go of the need for everything to look a certain way.</image:caption>
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