Being in another culture causes my mind to make comparisons and judgments about what’s right and what’s wrong.  While there may be something innocently natural about that, I realize that most of it is pride in what is familiar to me rather than something that’s truly right or wrong.
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The situation that has struck me here in Quebec is jaywalking.  One of the first days we were here (it might have been the Saturday morning I ventured out for the first time on my own) I stopped at a light and a pedestrian cut diagonally across the intersection.  I couldn’t believe it.  It just felt wrong.  I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a pedestrian jaywalk across an intersection in downtown Minneapolis.  That’s not to say that it doesn’t happen, but isn’t it against the law?  In Africa walking in any given direction without acknowledgement of vehicles is common, but in North America?  I wanted to tell the lady “You can’t do that!”

In the past six years overseas, I’ve found myself saying”You can’t do that!”  to a number of situations:

–  You can’t look into our windows!
–  You can’t just open the door of our house and walk in!
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–  You can’t tell me my dirt yard is too dirty and that I ought to take better care of it!
–  You can’t sleep on my roof Mister!

I can’t think of any Scriptures that would support these “You cant’s.”  They are just this feeling that comes from situations that are so totally unfamiliar or opposite of what our normal patterns are here that they feel wrong.

Well, today I saw another couple jaywalking across another intersection and started to conclude that it must not be illegal here.  Over time I’ll get used to it and won’t have the same passionate response I felt last week.  And that is usually what happens in Africa too… well with some things anyways.  Honestly there are some things that I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to.  But we don’t go there to impress our laws or cultural rules of politeness.  We go there to love.  The way that Jesus loved.  He died.  He laid down His life.  This is a good training ground to help us do the same.

For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you (2 Corinthians 4:11-12).

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