Can you see there hope here

You can read about all these different journeys by clicking the tabs at the top of the site — the stories are organized by theme. Or, simply go to the home page to read the most recent posts.

This makes it hard to plan the day. Homelessness in America: I spent some years living and working in Colorado with small homeless outreach organization which harnesses the power of the community to help individuals who are experiencing homelessness. Peace Corps: A chronicle that was written in real time about my experience living and working in a rural community in Benin, West Africa, as a Peace Corps volunteer doing rural community health work.

Uganda: My first attempt at blogging while I was studying abroad in Uganda during my junior year of college. Thanks for checking in and please leave me a comment to let me know what you think! Share this: Twitter Facebook. Please help me to remember your message of hope as I walk through my day today.

A song to listen to: Gracious Redeemer. This Grow Daily was originally posted as part of the Bible in 10 series in During the School Holidays we take the opportunity to look back at the best of Grow Dailys over the years.

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Millions of people, including a statistically small but heartbreaking number of kids, now live with symptoms of long COVID. And I think this can be a hard truth to communicate to our children, as we toe that line between wanting to be honest and wanting to protect them from further trauma. So many of them were already threatened by racist violence , mass shootings, the deadly effects of a largely unchecked climate emergency , long before COVID came to devastate our communities.

Nor am I certain they have a reason to, given how grievously so many adults have failed to take the easiest and most obvious steps to keep them and others safe. How do we help them live and learn when we, their parents and caregivers, lack that most basic of foundations to stand on? I struggle every day to figure out how to talk with my kids about the reality of this pandemic and the choices countless adults have made. For now, I keep telling them that I love them.