“You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.” Psalm 65:8 ESV I suspect that as we continue to edge out of the pandemic and its aftermath, more and more of us will be able to look back and identify our 2020 refrain. Lamentations 3:22-23 was mine: “his mercies …
My new apartment gets sun-soaked around four in the afternoon every day, which makes the plants by the window very happy. I’m settling in here. I’ve made meals, done laundry, and mopped the floors, and last Sunday night, I hung paintings on the walls. Above my workspace, I put a print that reminds me to …
Ana is currently back in Wolaita Soddo, Ethiopia, for the summer. She is living and interning at Soddo Christian Hospital, which is run through the collaboration of missionaries and Ethiopian doctors. The reflections below are from her first update email! We asked the man to wiggle his toes. He looked around at the crowd of …
We were moving my sister into her dorm room for her first year of college after moving me into my first ever apartment, when my parents got the call that my Papa was in the hospital after a fall. It was the first of many calls over the next few months as his health steadily …
Breaking down the moving boxes was the hardest part. For three years, I’d kept them intact. Why bother breaking them down when in a few months I’d have to build them up again? But a year and a few days ago, I slid a pocket knife through the packing tape between the cardboard flaps, folded …
