It was a hard day when my husband found out that like so many others he too would soon be furloughed from employment as a result of the COVID pandemic We knew that we likely had no reason to fear that our basic needs would not be met but the uncertainty was still terrifying As I processed my jumbled emotions I found myself revisiting a favorite poem by sixteenth-century reformer John of the Cross Entitled ldquo I Went In I Knew Not Where rdquo the poem depicts the wonder to be found in a journey of surrender when going ldquo
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