This week beat me; there’s no two ways about it. I won’t say I didn’t get anything done, but I had specific plans to write, and those didn’t get done; a blog post I started last Friday is still sitting as a draft, just to name one thing.
I also didn’t get my weekly hope*writers post up before this. I thought about doing two weeks’ worth in one post, but decided against it—it seemed to me that doing so would de-emphasize the writers to whom I’m linking, and I don’t want to do that.
I love the way Katie Scott put this: “God is predictable in His character and unexpected in His actions.” It always delights me when someone captures something I’ve been trying to say better than I’ve managed to say it.
Yolanda Lichty grapples with a terrible story which is little-known outside of Canada (I’m familiar with it from my time at Regent) in her post “215 Is too Many: Confessions and Questions of a White Canadian Mennonite”—the story of the residential schools to which indigenous peoples were forced to send their children and the abuses that happened in those schools. I commend Katie Scott’s post to you because it’s encouraging; I commend Yolanda Lichty’s to you as a point of entry into a hard story that needs to be heard.
Thank you for sharing, Rob. I’m by no means the expert, but I care.
Yolanda, you’re welcome, and thank you for your post.