How dare you remind me of everything I miss about New York?! This was beautifully written, Aberdeen; thank you for encapsulation all the things that make New York beautiful. I'm going to have to reread White now!
I love this so much. I’m in the LA area, which I am learning to love and I even found myself very defensive of in the last few weeks as rhetoric proclaiming “God’s judgment” was hurled at it as brutally as the fires that devastated it. No place is perfect and there is something good in loving where you are.
Ugh I'm sorry you had to defend your city against those messages. The last thing you need in the face of such devastation. But also how special to feel connected enough to it that you wanted to defend it! I love knowing that God loves the places he put us too.
This is an amazing piece of prose that describes exactly my feelings and fears about the city! The city might not be where I would choose to live when I finish college, but I look forward to the perfect home we will have once Christ returns.
I'm so glad this articulates what you feel too! And yes, it's such a gift to be able to look forward to a place that feels truly and fully like home - all the fleeting feelings we get of that here are just a signpost of something better. Thanks for that reminder <3
How dare you remind me of everything I miss about New York?! This was beautifully written, Aberdeen; thank you for encapsulation all the things that make New York beautiful. I'm going to have to reread White now!
Ahh I'm sorry - but I'm also glad you feel like it's true to your experience of the city!!
A beautiful painting of so many Kingsians’ experience.
Thank you so much - I'm glad it resonates with what you felt!
I love this so much. I’m in the LA area, which I am learning to love and I even found myself very defensive of in the last few weeks as rhetoric proclaiming “God’s judgment” was hurled at it as brutally as the fires that devastated it. No place is perfect and there is something good in loving where you are.
Ugh I'm sorry you had to defend your city against those messages. The last thing you need in the face of such devastation. But also how special to feel connected enough to it that you wanted to defend it! I love knowing that God loves the places he put us too.
This is an amazing piece of prose that describes exactly my feelings and fears about the city! The city might not be where I would choose to live when I finish college, but I look forward to the perfect home we will have once Christ returns.
I'm so glad this articulates what you feel too! And yes, it's such a gift to be able to look forward to a place that feels truly and fully like home - all the fleeting feelings we get of that here are just a signpost of something better. Thanks for that reminder <3