my apartment at La Universidad Reformada
• Brilliant blue skies, sun, and fragrant air after a day of copious rains;
• An apartment on the beautiful campus of La Universidad Reformada. The ambiance speaks tranquility and industriousness;
• The generous acts, love, humor, values, and sociopolitical analysis of the men and women leaders of the IPC (Colombian Presbyterian Church);
• The privilege to collaborate with J. who documents human rights violations
• J.A., twice displaced from land, unemployed, who serves as President of the Atlantic Region of the Association of Displace People in Colombia;
• Participants from around Barranquilla who are part of a global advocacy network for just wages and decent work in a globalized economy. The IPC is a member of the network which held a local forum Thursday;
• La comida costeña.
In the face of all our realities:
we are the people who heal each other,
who grow strong together,
who name the truth,
who know what it means
to live in community,
moving towards a common dream
for a new heaven and a new earth
in the power of the love of God.
(#200, Sing the Story)
