On Thursday I had a full day of travel to Hershey, PA, for a couple of presentations at a dairy conference. With good weather, I was treated to a beautiful sunrise on my way to Hershey in the morning and a sunset of similar quality on my evening drive home. And I don't have any photos to prove it! However, I did get out the next evening to capture another great sunset (above).
Also on Friday, I met with a small group of IAFR colleagues for a discussion about the book, "Strangers in the Kingdom," by Rupen Das and Brent Hamoud. In a chapter focused on missiological foundations in response to those who "don't belong," a few of the authors' comments stood out to me contrasting societal behavior towards widows and orphans to the behavior towards foreigners. Here is a quote from that chapter: "Care for the foreigner described in Exodus and Deuteronomy is compassion for vulnerable foreigners who were living in Israel and had no social support of a family or tribe to provide for and protect them. In the ancient world, care for the poor, who were mostly widows and orphans, was the responsibility of the king and the wealthy. The foreigner in their midst who was poor was of no concern for them. So the requirements of the Mosaic law for the care and protection of foreigners in Israelite communities was exceptional in the ancient world." Is it much different today?
There have been some interesting developments with plans for the housing initiative I will be working with in Fort Morgan. I will aim to summarize where things are at in the next post. I pray the Lord will continue to direct our plans and that we will flexible and obedient enough to follow well.
We celebrated Zarya's 10th birthday this week, despite my telling her over and over that I didn't think I was ready for one of my kids to have a double digit age. She is such a blessing!
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