Comments for Sheryl O'Bryan http://www.sherylobryan.com Third Culture Kids & Company Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Community in Real Life by Sheryl http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4150 Sheryl Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:06 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4150 Soul--we need to talk. I love you. Soul--we need to talk. I love you.

]]> Comment on A Costly Week by Sheryl http://www.sherylobryan.com/a-costly-week/comment-page-1/#comment-4149 Sheryl Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:55:35 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1779#comment-4149 Soul--You've had a very full week! Even if you didn't get out of the house much, it sounds very full. This grown up stuff? It comes with more pain than I ever imagined as a kid. I'm sorry a lot of it is suffocating you right now. Thanks for sharing your week! Big 'ugs to you! Soul--You've had a very full week! Even if you didn't get out of the house much, it sounds very full. This grown up stuff? It comes with more pain than I ever imagined as a kid. I'm sorry a lot of it is suffocating you right now. Thanks for sharing your week! Big 'ugs to you!

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Sheryl http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4148 Sheryl Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:53:36 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4148 Stephen - Perhaps you should come up with a parable . . . The Kingdom of Verdugo Woodlands is Like a Fish Truck . . .yup. I think that would be a good writing assignment for you. Thank you, Lisa! Lynne--That's a tough one--especially when I know your community has stepped up around you this week as your struggling with malaria. When I read your comments, I couldn't help but think that God will give you community in your new location . . . it will just take some work to get it. You've already laid the groundwork for relationship there. I'm confident God will provide men and women of peace who will care for you when you're alone and not feeling well. I'm confident he will bring others into the Kingdom. I know it will take a while, but he won't call you away from everything and everyone you know to abandon you. He may call you to loneliness, but never to despair. I think, too, your definition of community will probably need to change to start with. It may get back to what it is now, but it's not fair to you or to those around you to expect it will look the same in each place. He's got something big for you. Keep breathing! Ginger--I can't imagine not having you and your sons as part of my life. (Nor can I imagine you being any sort of ugly!) Thanks for sharing life with me! Tirzah--thanks for the reminder that community takes on all different shapes and sizes. And more importantly--thanks for being a stalwart prayer warrior! Stephen - Perhaps you should come up with a parable . . . The Kingdom of Verdugo Woodlands is Like a Fish Truck . . .yup. I think that would be a good writing assignment for you.

Thank you, Lisa!

Lynne--That's a tough one--especially when I know your community has stepped up around you this week as your struggling with malaria. When I read your comments, I couldn't help but think that God will give you community in your new location . . . it will just take some work to get it. You've already laid the groundwork for relationship there. I'm confident God will provide men and women of peace who will care for you when you're alone and not feeling well. I'm confident he will bring others into the Kingdom. I know it will take a while, but he won't call you away from everything and everyone you know to abandon you. He may call you to loneliness, but never to despair. I think, too, your definition of community will probably need to change to start with. It may get back to what it is now, but it's not fair to you or to those around you to expect it will look the same in each place. He's got something big for you. Keep breathing!

Ginger--I can't imagine not having you and your sons as part of my life. (Nor can I imagine you being any sort of ugly!) Thanks for sharing life with me!

Tirzah--thanks for the reminder that community takes on all different shapes and sizes. And more importantly--thanks for being a stalwart prayer warrior!

]]> Comment on A Costly Week by Cheryl http://www.sherylobryan.com/a-costly-week/comment-page-1/#comment-4138 Cheryl Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:47:48 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1779#comment-4138 This week we are facing unusually cold temperatures which have already gotten the better of our bathroom pipes. We have heaters on them again today, hoping that the ice will eventually yield so that we'll be able to take baths and showers again... Yesterday Eric got sick, and continues to run a low fever today, which is depriving me of an afternoon outside in the cold clear sun up at the Champ du Feu winter festival, where James is helping to lead an ecumenical service. Doesn't feel like a Sunday. And what with the cold and Eric's illness, I'm starting to feel a little bit like a caged animal... Let me out!!! This week, also, my mom celebrated her 75th birthday, and Teen and Freeze and Judson were there this weekend. We got to skype yesterday, and it just reminded me: I miss my family a lot. There. Those are a few of the things happening in my life this week... 'ugs. Soul This week we are facing unusually cold temperatures which have already gotten the better of our bathroom pipes. We have heaters on them again today, hoping that the ice will eventually yield so that we'll be able to take baths and showers again...
Yesterday Eric got sick, and continues to run a low fever today, which is depriving me of an afternoon outside in the cold clear sun up at the Champ du Feu winter festival, where James is helping to lead an ecumenical service. Doesn't feel like a Sunday. And what with the cold and Eric's illness, I'm starting to feel a little bit like a caged animal... Let me out!!!
This week, also, my mom celebrated her 75th birthday, and Teen and Freeze and Judson were there this weekend. We got to skype yesterday, and it just reminded me: I miss my family a lot.
There. Those are a few of the things happening in my life this week...
'ugs.
Soul

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Cheryl http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4137 Cheryl Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:43:27 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4137 I identify very closely with Lynne S. Community in our lives right now is practically non-existant. There are a few who come to church, to choir practice, and a lovely core group of ladies at Bible studies I lead, but we are usually only 3 or 4 at prayer meeting, and don't have a place anywhere to share personal requests and receive prayer. Sometimes it's hard to keep hoping. Been 3 years so far. I do think I need to really work at developing and maintaining my "international community network," because that's the thing that will keep me alive. We are also thinking we need to make the extra effort to get to St Nicolas, our Strasbourg community, more often. I identify very closely with Lynne S. Community in our lives right now is practically non-existant. There are a few who come to church, to choir practice, and a lovely core group of ladies at Bible studies I lead, but we are usually only 3 or 4 at prayer meeting, and don't have a place anywhere to share personal requests and receive prayer. Sometimes it's hard to keep hoping. Been 3 years so far. I do think I need to really work at developing and maintaining my "international community network," because that's the thing that will keep me alive. We are also thinking we need to make the extra effort to get to St Nicolas, our Strasbourg community, more often.

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Tirzah http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4124 Tirzah Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:11:49 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4124 I remember similar feelings when I was living alone after college. I've learned that community in real life sometimes means time and distance separate but in times of need or important events none of that matters. I've also learned (as an extrovert) that community can be small - a few tried and true friends. I'm glad RC was good for you. I hope your next training goes well. Praying for you as always! I remember similar feelings when I was living alone after college. I've learned that community in real life sometimes means time and distance separate but in times of need or important events none of that matters. I've also learned (as an extrovert) that community can be small - a few tried and true friends.

I'm glad RC was good for you. I hope your next training goes well. Praying for you as always!

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Ginger Hunt http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4121 Ginger Hunt Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:18:56 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4121 Sweet Sheryl, your words always help me see your face. You will always be part of my community- the people I know will pray when I need it, the people who will love me when I'm ugly (inside or outside!), the people who took the time to let me into their lives so I know how to pray for them. A few go to my church, a few live very far away. But no matter where you are, you are part of life for me and for my sons. Sweet Sheryl, your words always help me see your face. You will always be part of my community- the people I know will pray when I need it, the people who will love me when I'm ugly (inside or outside!), the people who took the time to let me into their lives so I know how to pray for them. A few go to my church, a few live very far away. But no matter where you are, you are part of life for me and for my sons.

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Lynne Schmidt http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Lynne Schmidt Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:20:58 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4114 Wow, Sheryl, I've been thinking about this so much and your blog post just hits home. Trouble is, like you said, when you've had an awesome community and then go to none. I wonder what community will look like when we are living in a place that is 99% Muslim. Maybe another one of your readers can answer that for me because they are already living it. Will it be just Rodger and me until God brings others into the Kingdom? After the community we've had, this thought terrifies me to the point of not being able to breathe sometimes. I WILL trust God to show me what community means for me in our near future. Wow, Sheryl, I've been thinking about this so much and your blog post just hits home. Trouble is, like you said, when you've had an awesome community and then go to none. I wonder what community will look like when we are living in a place that is 99% Muslim. Maybe another one of your readers can answer that for me because they are already living it. Will it be just Rodger and me until God brings others into the Kingdom? After the community we've had, this thought terrifies me to the point of not being able to breathe sometimes. I WILL trust God to show me what community means for me in our near future.

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Lisa Furnish http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4111 Lisa Furnish Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:59:55 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4111 Wonderfully written. So true.... Wonderfully written. So true....

]]> Comment on Community in Real Life by Steve http://www.sherylobryan.com/community-in-real-life/comment-page-1/#comment-4108 Steve Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:06:08 +0000 http://www.sherylobryan.com/?p=1785#comment-4108 I have community. I call it Kingdom! I have community. I call it Kingdom!

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