This week, both Au and I got this notice from our organization’s administrator: Completion of Home Assignment: This is a reminder that in 3 months or less, you are scheduled to complete your Home Assignment. Please contact your home side Personnel Manager to discuss arrangements. We arrived in the US in mid-January to the bitter cold […]
We all tell stories. We tell them to ourselves. We tell them to others. We repeat them to the next generation. Let’s explore the story a leading man told himself. This man led a nation for 40 years and ended up seeing where the nation was headed but was denied entry into that promised future.
Since March 2020, I’ve been asking, “When will it be time for me to be with my cherished family?” Before covid, I thought that all that was needed was an adequate budget and sufficient vacation time. All I needed to do was buy a ticket and fly home. After all, isn’t that how the world
O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear Yes, we know what exile feels – just a little. Knowing that we haven’t been home since August 2019, and acknowledging that 2020 is not the year we had hoped for and we aren’t