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 third update email! “We’re trying to show everyone that we have skills, talents, and can lead normal lives. …
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 second update email! “They are saying they welcome you as their own, because you are their sister in …
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 …
By coincidence (read: providence) I landed on Ephesians 4 and Psalm 4 this morning, as part of a plan to go through one chapter of Ephesians and one Psalm a day. As often happens when I read Pauline epistles, I got overwhelmed by the sheer density of the passage of Ephesians and found myself reading …
I’ve noticed that most people have a tendency to apologize after asking for help. “I’m sorry to lay this on you,” we say. “I’m sorry that was so much.” We apologize because we know firsthand how hard this burden is to carry, and now we’ve gone and laid part of it on someone else’s shoulders. …
