Displacement
Flight. Gunshots. Phone calls. Frantic packing. Hurried goodbyes. Faces taut with fear. Questions without answers. Everything, gone. Arrival. Strange beds. New country. Foreign language. Exhaustion. Tears. Will I see this person again? Will I play with that toy ever again? Questions without answers. Everything, possible. In Between. Discussions. So many discussions. Processing. Settling but not […]
When Wandering
“Where are we going today, Mom? What are we going to do?” One of my daughters begins almost every morning with this, before I’ve drained my first cup of coffee. For most of her life, I’ve had a relative plan for our days, our weeks. But not these last few weeks. We are finding ourselves […]
Living an Exodus Life
When I think of Moses, the Israelites and the exodus from Egypt, I can get wrapped up in a moment or an event. I often think of the story happening within the space of a few chapters without really pondering what the reality would have been like. The reality was that the exodus was a […]
This Week’s Theme: Exodus
“Now go.” The Father issues this command throughout Scripture and to us today. We obeyed when we said that brave yes to leave family and familiarity and walk into the unknown. But sometimes it also means leaving, whether we want to or not. Unrest, sickness, burnout, these can thrust us from our second home and […]