I held the green-bound book in my hands with all the care of holding an infant. Gold Arabic script swirled across the cover. I had in my hands a precious copy of Luke and Acts, a translation work from our global partners and their team. The language is a specific Kurdish dialect native to northern Iraq.
Can you imagine not having the Bible in your first language? Only having access to Luke and Acts? What would my faith look like if I only had select passages of Scripture to mull over?
Recently I've felt that the world seems even more loudly chaotic to me. Political crises, economic woes, unbelievable violence and hatred, lack of civility, grief upon grief. A thousand different voices scream themselves into oblivion on social media. But underneath all the noise, we can still hear the whisper of truth, if we'll just listen.
So as I held the small sliver of verses, I was thankful for the simplicity of the gospel. This is what keeps me excited — to see that in spite of everything, truth still makes its way into the world, into languages I can't read or understand, and speaks to the heart of people everywhere.
Can you imagine not having the Bible in your first language? Only having access to Luke and Acts? What would my faith look like if I only had select passages of Scripture to mull over?
Recently I've felt that the world seems even more loudly chaotic to me. Political crises, economic woes, unbelievable violence and hatred, lack of civility, grief upon grief. A thousand different voices scream themselves into oblivion on social media. But underneath all the noise, we can still hear the whisper of truth, if we'll just listen.
So as I held the small sliver of verses, I was thankful for the simplicity of the gospel. This is what keeps me excited — to see that in spite of everything, truth still makes its way into the world, into languages I can't read or understand, and speaks to the heart of people everywhere.
