Holding the Tension Between Despair and Hope
In my kitchen I have an old Amazon show - it’s a device kind of like a very small television. It runs off of the internet and connects to photographs that I have uploaded and saved to Amazon photos. In the ten years I have been here I have taken hundreds and hundreds of photographs of our life together. These photos rotate through my Amazon show, like a little movie that plays all day every day, reminding me of the people here and the many things we have done together. Some days I see pictures of our children, many of whom are now teenagers or grown adults, carving pumpkins. Or I see photos of worship services or meals and events with people who are no longer with us, many of whom have died. And then there are the photos of our life together over the last 18 months of COVID time. Photos of Halim and I leading worship in an empty church when people could only join us on zoom or Facebook Live. As these photos rotate through my kitchen I experience many different emotions, love and hop