It's All Grace

a journey with the Thomason family

Category: Our Year In Czech

  • Church and the Zoo

    Another Sunday in Czech and another great day with God’s people. Our church here in Czech has long been partnering with an American church and Welsh church to put on an English camp near our town. Today those two churches (the American and Welsh churches) came to our church to share about this past week’s…

  • If You Build It…

    Today was mostly a “building day.” By “building” I mean I built a lot of IKEA furniture. In fact, I did some work with the screwdriver that I have two blisters on the palm of my hand as souvenirs from today’s IKEA marathon. IKEA furniture is great, especially in Europe. It’s pretty reasonably priced, they…

  • First Haircuts

    Believe it or not, I was genuinely concerned about getting a haircut in Czech. I think it’s because for the past 6.5 years I could literally walk downstairs at Paul Mitchell where I worked and April would cut my hair. Nobody wants a bad haircut. If you get a bad haircut, you’re stuck. For at…

  • Trains, Tolls, and Trusting Jesus in the Noise

    There a lot sounds where we live. Next door is a Catholic church with bells that ring literally every 15 minutes. On the hour, a quarter passed, a the half hour, a quarter till, and then on the hour again. They ring when there’s a call for mass and I’m pretty someone just rings them…

  • “What people are bad robot”

    “What people are bad robot.” That’s a translation we came up with tonight while studying Czech. It’s also about as clear as we are on this new language. Tomorrow we’ll have our second formal Czech lesson and Jitka (our teacher) got us our new books and gave us a little homework. Czech is not easy.…