With professor Yaha Laylay La of KBTS in Yangoon, Myanmar (Burma). Dr Yaha heard about me from the Karen leaders in Maesot Thailand and invited me to teach. It was my first entry into Burma and a very interesting varied experience. The country is crawling out from under a rock and attempting to groom itself to receive visitors from the outside world. It has a long way to go! I had entry problems – [nobody really knows what is required], the hotel had rolling power outages, taxis taking me to my speaking appointments got lost, internet access felt like 1990s. To resupply money one needed to find an ATM but these only exist theoretically.  During the time I was at KBTS I did many things every day. I was Yaha’s toolbox and he opened me up and used me in a new way! I ended up doing a memorial service for a lady I never knew.  I taught a seminar on Daniel and Revelation because an upper level class was grappling with heterodox interpretations on Revelation 14 and asked if I might know anything about the subject.  I taught a series on Paul’s dictum “We walk by faith not by sight” to three different classes and preached to several hundred students on Jesus words “My Yoke is Easy My Burden is Light”  – “How to Get the Victory over Hard Work”. I chose this subject because the students were visibly drooping under their workload and I sensed they were losing the fun of learning. One of my points about hard vs easy labor referred to David the shepherd boy. Imagine him whiling away the doldrums smashing Coke bottles with his slingshot and then after the thrill wore off sitting down under a Juniper tree and scribbling out little poems – playing with words, rhymes and rhythms. We are still reading these poems and his sling shot prowess catapulted him toward his future like no other single skill. My point – stay close to what feeds your passion it contains the seeds of your future. I now have many friends in Myanmar and invitations to return.