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Crossing Cultures Making Disciples Memoir

The other pandemic

We meet for lunch. Fellowship over Mediterranean food. Simply connecting while all around us the global spread of a virus ensues. Intensifies.

Events cancel. Borders tighten. Universities move to virtual classrooms. Our best-laid plans are disrupted. Interrupted. Changed.

We sit in sunshine and cool air. Sisters conversing about life journeys. Children. The hard and unexpected turns in the path this past year. The joy of following Him.

Empty chairs. Photo by Dewang Gupta, Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Making Disciples

Night flight

Night flight. The hum of jet engines wraps around me. Creating space for solitude. Thought.

All else is silent. Lights out. Passengers sleep. A few watch small flickering screens, earphones in place. 

Jetspeed on a clear sky night. Across Central Asia. The map says we’re passing over desert. Mountains. Cities and villages.

I watch out the window. 

Night flight view over Asia.
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