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The God Who Sees

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…

Wet Cement

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…

Love Makes a Difference

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…

The Gate

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…