Daniel Morgan
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Houston, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | I’m a native Texan. As a kid I spent summer vacations in Colorado, and my heart is always close to the mountains, and wolves. Fortunately, Japan has a lot of those. Well, mountains at least. Not so much with the wolves.
My story is rather simple. I grew up in a family that followed Jesus. I understood at an early age who Jesus is and why He died on the cross. One night when I was five years old, my heart was uneasy; I felt convicted that I was a sinner and that I needed Jesus to save me from my sins. I asked my mother (who had been praying for me) how I could trust Jesus, and she explained to me. And so I gave my life to Him. As He promised, He forgave me, washed me clean, and gave me new life in my spirit. Over the years, though I have often been weak and faithless, He has continued to lead me and free me from various struggles with depression, nihilism, bitterness, unforgiveness, pride, and the selfishness in my heart. My introduction to Japan was teaching English in Nishinomiya. While there, He gave me a heart for the Japanese and a passion to share His love with them the way that my mother shared it with me when I was a child. |
| Interests | Hanging out with internationals; teaching English; learning Japanese; sharing Jesus; Blue Bell ice cream; swashbuckling; hiking and traveling; poetry; reading; overcast wintry days; writing off-kilter, retro-futurist, post-apocalyptic pulp novels; aikido; crime-fighting. |
| Favorite music | Folk-rock. Patty Griffin, Death Cab for Cutie, Caedmon's Call, The Pillows, Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, Bump of Chicken, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, Built to Spill, La Oreja de Van Gogh, The Head and the Heart, Yuki (formerly Judy and Mary), Retro Honpo, Switchfoot. |
| Favorite books | Works of Alexandre Dumas, William Morris, John Ruskin-Unto This Last, Edmund Rostand- Cyrano De Bergerac, Edgar Rice Burroughs- Princess of Mars series. Beowulf, The Ballad of the Goodly Fere, The Dream of the Rood. Poetry of Yeats, Frost, and George Herbert. G.K. Chesterton- The Napoleon of Notting Hill, C.S. Lewis- The Chronicles of Narnia, Neil Gaiman- The Sandman. Stan Sakai - Usagi Yojimbo Watchman Nee- The Normal Christian Life, Roland Allen- Missionary Methods: St Paul's or Ours?, Frank Viola- Pagan Christianity. |