I sit here in my office, spinning back and forth in my chair. My mind wanders and stumbles across the thought of how good God has been to me during this past year and a half. Don't get me wrong there has been plenty of NOT GOOD the past year, but there has been so much GOOD in my life too. For starters, leaving China was absolutely awful. It was stressful to leave so suddenly and at the start of a now global pandemic. Not knowing at the time that we would not be returning, we

I remember telling myself in university that things will be better once this class is finished or that everything will be easier when this project has been completed. I specifically remember my boss asking me at the end of the first semester of junior year if I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. My reply went something like this, "I don't even see the tunnel yet, not to mention the light at the end of it." Life at the time was chaotic, stressful, and overwhelming.