Source: Liturgies for a Life Abroad<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know, dear Lord
that no place on this
spinning globe
is without challenge\u2014
the biggest cities to the
most remote villages
each come with a unique
list of difficulties.
And right now
this place,
where I\u2019ve unpacked my bags
and set up a home,
is feeling especially hard to love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the whole prayer<\/a> (Instagram; also on Facebook). Maybe you can share it with a friend serving cross-culturally or struggling to readjust to their passport country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also the related book Liturgies and Laments for the Sojourner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Liturgies for a Life Abroad I know, dear Lordthat no place on thisspinning globeis without challenge\u2014the biggest cities to themost remote villageseach come with a uniquelist of difficulties.And right nowthis place,where I\u2019ve unpacked my bagsand set up a home,is feeling especially hard to love. Read the whole prayer (Instagram; also on Facebook). Maybe you … Continue reading Prayer: A Liturgy for Struggling to Love Where You Live<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}