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Refining

Tomorrow. Next month. Next year. 
Detailed future schedules, meticulously stored in digital calendars. 
Vanish. Into thin air. Digital air.
As a corona virus disrupts. Delays. Deletes.
And thieves break in.
Whispering fear. Stealing contentment.
This confining space. A refining place. Reveals. 
Makes plain where best-laid-plans put down roots.
And expectations take hold. 

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city.…Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be!…”
James 4:14,15

2020. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Power outages

New Delhi, 2012. The electricity goes off. Right after a loud explosion. Most likely a transformer that’s blown in the neighborhood.

It’s late afternoon when shadows lengthen and shade our second floor flat. I sit in the dark. And wait. 

The mental checklist forms automatically. Honed by long experience. If it’s an extended interruption of power, there are things to do.

Last sun rays before the shadows. New Delhi.
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Reflect and trust

The candle flame moves. Flickers. Casting large shadows on the walls. I sit in the edges of its light. 

All the celebrations of last week give way to winter quiet.  Time to remember and reflect. Looking towards the future. 

In past seasons there was little time for this quiet space. A long one, anyway. The season of raising three young children comes to mind. 

Even then, the hurry in my soul needed me to sit. Rest. Looking to the One who knows my days.  

Candlelight. Photo by David Tomaseti, Unsplash.
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