We missionaries are privileged to have the seasons to throw away come more frequently than for others. Well we can take it as a burden, a missionary-pain, or we can choose to see it as a positive thing.
We are forced to do what many might do for their parents only when they have passed away. In that case we are helping our kids removing some of our clutter before time is up. For families like us who have roots in many places, our home becomes the house of transition for the clutter after High School to College, or between college and a job or from one nation to another. The Salwar kamizes for the visits to Nepal, or the High School yearbooks before they know where to settle. Today we are digging deep into some hidden away drums, with transition-clutter. I didn't even know they existed. Mariam wrote on skype: 'I sympathize-sneeze' with you. So next week when the city is quenching the heat with the crazy splashing of water ''Songkhran festival'' we will be in the midst of our season to throw.
Then there are treasures like ''holy journals'' and worship-music, They are ''the keeps'' you don't want to keep in Thailand and not in Sweden so we carry them back and forth, back and forth, and that is a substantial pile!
All for now in a very hot Chiang Mai.
Love Anna
