I am almost 60 years of age.
Just time for one more job before I retire.
What will it be?
Easy peasy.
What about becoming a travel agent cum tour guide, taking people around India? That’ll do just fine.
I started working on my CV this week, by finding all the posts on this blog that capture photos/trips within India. Nineteen in total. Yikes.
That is a bit much for a portfolio and so I’ve decided to settle on a ‘first eleven’ – in no particular order:
On 13 December 2014, it is that love which I have discovered which is what draws me to this new career – showing friends around ‘our India’, this time Bill & Jan and Stephen & Bonnie.
On 8 January 2015, it is a visit to the place (finally!) whose name so captured me as a child, as it seemed to reach all the way across the Bay of Bengal to Thailand: Visakhapatnam.
On 16 March 2016, it is memories of a holiday together by the beach, Agonda Beach, in Goa.
nice chatting – but happy to keep doing what I am doing and being a tour guide in the margins.
Paul
About Me
the art of unpacking
After a childhood in India, a theological training in the USA and a pastoral ministry in Southland (New Zealand), I spent twenty years in theological education in New Zealand — first at Laidlaw College and then at Carey Baptist College, where I served as principal. In 2009 I began working with Langham Partnership and since 2013 I have been the Programme Director (Langham Preaching). Through it all I've cherished the experience of the 'gracious hand of God upon me' and I've relished the opportunity to 'unpack', or exegete, all that I encounter in my walk through life with Jesus.
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