The Mission Link

After September 11th, 2001, many people began to talk about “the new normal.” The idea was that things were never going to be the same as they had been, and “normal” was certainly not going to mean what it once had.

 In the past two and a half months, we at 2850 have been trying to adjust to a “new normal” as we lived together in a makeshift “camp” that was once the building’s cafeteria. Now, though, we are heading back to our “new” old location. The boxes are coming off the truck, the dust is settling (and being vacuumed up!) and we are back in our “new normal”–the cubicles (with only a few offices) that will now be our home for a while.

I realized how difficult it had been to adjust to the “new normal” when I felt an unnatural level of affection for this cubicle I now call home . . . and more so when I realized that that the things on my “to-do” list were actually getting accomplished.

 We have faced many challenges in the past few months, and yet we were so blessed in that time . . . with the grace we offered to each other, with the minimum amount of sickness that went around, despite our “cozy” arrangements, and with the wonderful “nearly new” accommodations that we are now enjoying.

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 We give thanks for the hard work of Duc and his team of faithful employees who put up with our “um, this still needs to go on the truck” and the “have you seen this box?!” We are so grateful for the many ways that God carried us through this time, and we look forward to the prospect of being able to continue on in the work God has called us to of supporting those who serve God “to the ends of the earth.”