{"id":8268,"date":"2014-01-01T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2014-01-01T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T17:01:05","slug":"papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/01\/01\/papua-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Anderson house, a classic “Swiss Family Robinson” affair, built years ago by Neil on a hill near the end of the earth.<\/h6>\n

I’m off to Papua New Guinea. I flew out of LAX the very hour 2013 became history and 2014 arrived. Perhaps it’s symbolic: Another new year, another new project.<\/p>\n

I’ll be in Papua New Guinea for three weeks. I’ll be with my friend Neil Anderson who, along with his wife Carol and their four children, called this place home. We’ll work together on a new book.<\/p>\n

It’s not our first. Back in the ’90s my family and I also lived in Papua New Guinea. We weren’t in a village, rather a center, with people of many nations and most of the normal comforts. It was then that Neil and I collaborated on our first book. It was his material; I was the writer.<\/p>\n

Neil Anderson is a Bible translator. With some 850 separate languages in Papua New Guinea, there is plenty of work for such linguists. These languages have previously had no written system at all, so it’s always starting from scratch, requiring much grit, considerable brains, strong faith, and many years.<\/p>\n

The book that resulted was In Search of the Source<\/em>. It’s an account of adventures and discovery of new terms for deep truths–and how they look from the vantage of a completely different culture. The book still enjoys popular readership. Every now and then I receive a copy that’s been produced in yet another language (some ten so far). Now Neil and I have been commissioned to write a sequel.<\/p>\n

How that will go, I don’t know. Once again I’ll sit with Neil by the hour, recording his abundance, interrupting now and then, fishing for more, searching for closure. And then it’ll be working it all over and over, back home, in the months to follow.<\/p>\n

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Who knows how it will really go?<\/p>\n

Wish me well, and Neil. If you pray, that will doubtless help.<\/p>\n

It’s another work of faith. Which still means . . . a lot of work.<\/p>\n

Just the way I like it.<\/p>\n

Happy New Year.<\/p>\n

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PS If you’ve got It’s About Life<\/em>, check page 45, “Two Required to Make One Succeed.” It cites my work with Neil on our first book when I really learned this truth. If you don’t have it, click here for how<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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