why losses are sometimes wins:

Eccl. 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting,
for this is the end of all mankind,
and the living will lay it to heart.

we'll be studying The Preacher's musings starting in July (so start reading Ecclesiastes now, if you wish)

they go to love, so we go to pray

If you promised to pray or you want to know more about our team headed to Japan, click here.

regression

This reminded me of a scene in Royal Tennenbaum's of which a minor theme may have been (I don't know) about our longing to return to simpler (and younger) days