journeys
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Temporary
I went through this abandoned photography phase. Not that I took photos myself (trespass in abandoned locales? No thanks!), but was intrigued by dilapidated buildings. Malls were my favorite—cavernous stores and broken escalators, once bustling and now returned to nature. In my hiking heyday, I loved to find ruins on the trail. I thought of… Continue reading
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Revival
Sometimes I feel lost. Maybe that’s the way of the convert, at least at first—there is so much to discover, and you try your hand at all of it. You memorize all the prayers and read all the books. You don a prayer shawl and attend retreats; you sprinkle a few “God bless yous” on… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6