Dear All of Us,
It's been "a week from hell."
In the past seven days
my family and I
have dealt with
difficulty, dislocation,
distress and disability
compounding all over
each other—loss of
home and work
to serious and
long term injury.
Gone are convenience,
comfort, control.
It feels like
the Israelites
living out of a
suitcase in the
desert of nowhere.
Like them,
we and
all dislocated
have two options.
We can face
our instability,
trust Yahweh
to stabilize us
in this distress
and keep on truck'n
across this desert
of dislocation.
Or, we can
take things
into our own hands,
disconnect from
Yahweh,
fashion our own gods
for resolution
and get what
the Israelites got—
more mess and misery.
Please pray for us
and all in our
world family
suffering dislocation:
divorce, abandonment,
migration, war,
flood, fire, COVID,
betrayal, impoverishment,
depression and painfully
too much more.
As upset and scared
as we are,
we trust and truck.
John Frank
