Blooming Where I’ve Been Planted
At the beginning of the year, I thought I wouldn’t want to stay in Minnesota after my JVC year. But I didn’t want to just enter and exit without getting to know anyone.
Grace Ogihara is a Jesuit Volunteer and Refugee and Immigrant Program Assistant in the Twin Cities, MN. She’s from San Jose, CA and a graduate of Santa Clara University in Communication and Studio Art.
At the beginning of the year, I thought I wouldn’t want to stay in Minnesota after my JVC year. But I didn’t want to just enter and exit without getting to know anyone.
It’s a question that members of the millennial cohort ask upon entering a friend’s home–the generation in which all the members of my JVC community fall…However, we as a community don’t have an answer to that question yet–we are still Wi-Fi free.
It was like God was literally making me be still, so that I might know Him better, just like the verse, “Be still and know that I am God.”
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