Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

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Earth at Night
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Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the [...]

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We never knew what we didn’t have.

We enjoy America’s moniker of ‘melting pot’ as a feature that distinguishes us from other places. It seems a great American pastime to find this way or that way to distinguish ourselves, especially in areas of our obvious superiority, and one area of that superiority is in our [...]

//I talk to Lorrie at night and tell her I can’t be home for Easter, and wish everybody a happy celebration.  She tells me the girls are going to church on Easter night with some friends they made, girls that work at the restaurant where Lorrie takes my calls.  Lorrie also tells me that a [...]

//I do have a special opportunity to tour Cairo on Saturday afternoon with Emad, from Mama Maggie’s. How it comes about is that while I’m in the Arab Contractor’s Hospital, my brother Gary is concerned about me, and shares his concern with others in West Michigan; one of the others being a friend, a [...]

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Emily and Amanda with friends at an Easter Service in Massawa, Eritrea
This is the fourth of a six part series, to be uploaded daily. -Gregg
Meanwhile, back in Eritrea, Werner from Legend II is helping Emily get things in shape to move Faith up the Red Sea.
I have been doing it since we started, and I [...]

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This is the third of a six part series, to be uploaded daily. -Gregg
Amanda plans to go to Cairo with me but we don’t have enough money for two tickets.  It’s US$400 per ticket, payable at the counter.  They won’t accept payment in Nakfa, nor will they let us pay for our passage, on [...]

//This is the second of a six part series, to be uploaded daily. -Gregg
Returning to Faith, the fever returns to me, this time lingering longer than before, and Lorrie is rewarded with a real issue to concern herself with. Two boats, Snowgoose, and Legend II, offer support. Cathy, from Legend II is especially [...]

//This is the first of a six part series, to be uploaded daily. -Gregg
We steer for the entrance to the Red Sea, trying to make sense of the information in the cruising guides about the anchorages and safety in this area. Cruising guides encourage boats to use the main shipping channel of Bab el [...]

//A good friend of mine, fearing I’d slipped a bit too far from my conservative West Michigan roots during the course of our time in other countries, emailed me a link to a transcript from yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh gospel service. Rush addressed a quote by John Adams: “We have no government armed with the power [...]

//Memories of Indonesia:
As Americans, we live in invisible test tubes of about an arm’s length called our space and we feel uncomfortable when someone violates it. In Indonesia, and in all of the non-western cultures that we visit, personal space does not exist, and we learn not to miss such space.
We use, wherever possible, local [...]