The cake sounds wonderful. As for leaving home for a new country, few do so on a lark. It is very difficult for the first generation. Having lived as a migrant for 12 years, it is a hard life. You are always they outsider. Even if you love your new home it will never really be yours. How hard it must be to migrate to a new country where at least 35% of the people will vote for a man and movement that vilify you as "vermin", and worse and daily threaten to jail or deport you?
You have lived this very story. And it breaks my heart to think that America may be "the mouth of the shark" for some who come here looking for a better life.
Well said, Michelle. Valuable insight for today.
Thank you for sharing your gospel perspective linking the past with the present.
The cake sounds wonderful. As for leaving home for a new country, few do so on a lark. It is very difficult for the first generation. Having lived as a migrant for 12 years, it is a hard life. You are always they outsider. Even if you love your new home it will never really be yours. How hard it must be to migrate to a new country where at least 35% of the people will vote for a man and movement that vilify you as "vermin", and worse and daily threaten to jail or deport you?
You have lived this very story. And it breaks my heart to think that America may be "the mouth of the shark" for some who come here looking for a better life.
I love the way you draw the parallels between physical castles of old and the longings of misguided people embracing Christian Nationalism.
Thank you for this newsletter, Michelle, chock full of insight. God bless all of us, now and in the days ahead.