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Christmas Devotional Memoir

Delay

Delay. Airport overflowing. Passengers waiting. Watching. Anxious. Resigned. Complaining. Shouting. 

Weary mom holds one child and corrals the others. Trying to get home before snow.

Couple returning from vacation. Using up all that relaxation in one day of flight cancellations. 

I sit beside a man from Newark. Started his day long before dawn. Now it’s late afternoon and his flight diverted from Pensacola to this small airport in Alabama. 

He’s trying to find another way to reach his destination. But rental cars are long gone. 

Delay. Image by Zichao Zhang on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Memoir

Rest

Eighth grade. My bike traveled smoothly, softly in the quiet. On the dirt path through bamboo forests. 

Shaded relief from strong tropical sun on a humid day.

Freedom. Breeze lifting my hair. 

Lacework of bamboo shadows flowing over me. With bits and pieces of bright sunlight.

Rest.

Village path. Image by ElliotM on Unsplash.