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We Love it Here. Is That Ok?

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  Falling asleep with the cool 'winter' breezes blowing through our room, listening to monkeys chatter, while waves crash on the sand somewhere in the distance, I thought, "I really love it here."   My second thought was, "Too bad I can't share this part of our life."   WHAT?! Why not? Why do I feel the need to amplify the negative instead of glorifying God for all the beauty and joy that we have found here?   It started many years ago with some good advice, "Be careful how you represent your life there. People may think you are just on vacation if you only post the beach and the beauty." With that wisdom in our ears, we began to plan just how to accurately represent what our lives would be like. Over time, however, wisdom and tact turned into anxiety and fear.   Don't use that image in the slide show. Don't post that picture on Instagram. Emphasize the heat, bugs, poverty. Anything that 'proves' that we are not just