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11/18/2022

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​As I sit down to compose this letter, my family is currently working through two different portions of the Bible. For our family devotions we have been reading the Exodus - a story of the oppression by the Egyptian empire in its enslavement of the Hebrew people. Simultaneously, Catalina and I have started working through the book of Isaiah, which, very similarly, recounts the oppression of empires, as it looks towards Israel's exile by Babylon and Assyria. 

While there are many aspects of these stories that would be worth dwelling upon, this year I find that what stands out for me is the idea of families being uprooted. After finally living in one place for more than a year - the first time that's happened in nearly a decade for our family - we are experiencing a small taste of rootedness. This stability functions to highlight for us the uprooting of others. We are seeing millions of Ukrainians being uprooted through war. In our own community we are not infrequently experiencing a loss of those in the church through their need to move across Europe for work. While the world has always had wars and economic stressors, this year we are seeing these things in a different light.

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