The In-between Place of Blessings and Sorrows
watched her paintbrush slowly fill in the outline of her sketch on the wall at the end of the dormitory hallway, curious about how this verse she chose would be relevant to the twenty teenage girls about to move in. Between room checks and monitoring study hours, I would re-read the promise from Psalm 84:10 declaring that “Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere” and wonder what it truly meant. I was too young in my faith, and maybe even years, for it to make much sense. Instead of yearning for heaven, I dreamt of a week…
