For those who live in crisis, the good news known to glory. I refer not only to financial crisis, but crisis emotional, spiritual, and sometimes social.
The good news today came as a result of a call I made to a good friend based in the United States, immigration status until recently uncertain. After nearly 8 years, his residency papers will eventually ... that greatest blessing! It's been so long since Hurricane Mitch marked the history of Honduras, and as Freeman Lis, many compatriots migrated to America in search of a better future, not necessarily material, but a future in which we made ourselves feel more full, happy to see the result of effort and hard work!
try back in time and think about the last 8 years of our friend ... how much has been sacrificed, how much has been lost, much has waited very patiently, with faith that everything will be fine despite how difficult it becomes to live in a foreign land. The cost of uprooting is incalculable, the absence and emptiness of those who will not be measured in terms comprehensible to human reason. They become mothers, fathers, wives, grandmothers, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, uncles and friends among many ... waiting for the return, hoping that is not the simple batch, the one that set the pace for good or bad economy absent.
For friends the pain is not as great as that of the family, and after a while we get used to the absences. The big challenge we have is to continue feeding the friendship despite the distance, and ask in our prayers the brothers one day left looking for a better future, to return not as "deportees", but as worthy citizens for having achieved the dream proposed.
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