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The issue on my heart right now is that I seem to move from one hurting Afghan to the next. There are some who have been and could still be suicidal. Another is experiencing a miscarriage after having given birth to a baby last fall with a heart problem that died five days later. Some…
Let the (Afghan) Children Come to Me As the title of a book I read in seminary states, “Children are wet cement”. This has been so apparent in December, not that I ever doubted it, though. I had the privilege of spending time with children several times during the month of December. Before Christmas the…
One of a number of things I’ve thought about this month is how little (if any) praise is a part of Afghan culture. I’ve thought about that many times. The other day I was sitting around the “table” cloth on the floor with a large family as they ate an early meal. My friend had…
Afghans move from one sadness and difficulty to the next. I used to feel that Afghani lives were so hard because they were often poor refugees in a foreign land. Over the years I’ve discovered it’s much more than that. I think the spiritual climate of their lives lends itself to sadness and difficulty. I’m…
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