welcome

Hello, dear ones! I'm not normally a blogger, as I don't feel like anyone but me would be interested in reading it, in which case it's less work to just journal. Then, one day not long ago, I moved to Kolkata. What follows is a collection of thoughts, poems, and general life updates for all those who want to go on an adventure with me. I hope you will be able to learn and suffer along with me as we become intimately acquainted with "the poor" who are more than an economic class, but also dear friends... sisters and brothers. You will see here my struggles and brokenness, and also, I pray, the rise of hope. As I begin to try to live out God's heart for the poor, I am discovering that Christ makes home in the intersections. Physically, Jesus often lies on the side of the road- at home in Portland and even more frequently here in Kolkata. I'm also finding that in the inexplicable intersection between sorrow and joy I find Jesus. When we too make home in sorrow too real to ignore and too big to carry, we discover also the joy of worth redeemed, of freedom. Only here can opposites collide and be harmonious. Here in Kolkata I find the intersection, and with it I find love, which is after all, God.