About Rebecca Hopkins
Rebecca Hopkins lives on a tiny island in Indonesia with handsome hubby Brad, adventurous son Evan and sweet baby Renea, and next to the friendliest neighbors in the world—Indonesians. She regularly blogs at borneowife.blogspot.com. Broken Things
Somewhere along the journey to Indonesia, through my husband’s and baby’s bouts with dengue fever, in the midst of the loneliness of those first years overseas, jostled through two pregnancies and two babies born overseas, rubbed against the heartbreaking lives of Indonesian friends, I’ve become more broken.
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Secondhand Treasures
I button up the brown and pink flowered shirt on my daughter. I work fast before she squirms away to do busy toddler things. Wow. She looks just like Katie—my friend’s daughter, who wore this shirt a couple years ago, back when she was my daughter’s age. My son, now 3, spent his first couple [...] Read the Rest »
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Thankful for Things That Last
To Him, I’m thankful for memories that will linger long after the day of giving thanks.
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A Day and a Night
It was just a day and a night ago that my husband and I decided to take into our home an Indonesian pastor, and his wife and son, who had traveled to our town the previous week to seek medical care for the pastor’s dying mother.
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Home Foreign Home
After five years of being here, I’m no longer surprised every day like I used to be.
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Tears and Hope
I wished my 9-month-old daughter had taken her nap. Now I was trying to get home from the store as fast as I could with her screaming in the back of the car, refusing to be comforted. My Indonesian friend was sitting next to me, even more concerned about the screaming than I was. She’d [...] Read the Rest »
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The Hand of Providence
I watched two pairs of hands “flying” in front of me, banking around the imaginary mountain, hugging the river valley that exists somewhere deep in the jungles of Borneo. The bigger pair belonged to my husband, Brad, an MAF pilot/mechanic of five years in Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. While eating dinner, he was describing his flight [...] Read the Rest »
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