Culture shock is real. Maybe you're a newlywed and you've moved to a new town with your husband

and you don't even know your way to target. We know how we love our target runs. Or maybe you're a

former pastor's wife and suddenly your husband is no longer the pastor. That creates an identity

crisis on several levels. Or maybe you're a missionary on the field and you

wonder sometimes if people really care enough to pray for you as you're going through struggles

that you wouldn't write about in the missionary prayer letter. Or maybe you're like me, a widow who

doesn't know how not to be a wife. You've been a wife for longer

than you've done anything else in life, and now you're having this Who Am I stage of life. Or maybe

I didn't mention your situation at all. Maybe it's something else. But you're still feeling like

things just don't fit right. That's culture shock.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker. Sharing lessons

from the Word of God is her passion. Now, back to today's important study.

There are at least a dozen related definitions for culture shock, but I'll just paraphrase a few.

You could be feeling cut off from the things that you've been familiar with for a long time,

and you may be struggling to adjust to an environment or a location that's different from your own.

Or maybe it's just been too much change all at once and that has you feeling anxious

or uncertain in your new situation. Changes are challenges that force us to adapt even when we don't

feel like it. What can we do when we're in a situation and we're trying to adjust. Let's consider four tips, but as usual,

I know that these are just initial ideas and you'll come up with more on your own. Please understand

that in episodes that are 15 minutes or shorter, we can't cover things in depth. It's not going to

be a deep dive.

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