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A letter from Claire Zuhosky serving in Niger

May 2015 - There Is No Greater Thing

With the start of the new year there have been many ups and many downs, as is the way with any journey, new points of reference along the way bringing you to a place of contemplation, the desire to boil life down to its bare essentials. When you lose everything that this world has to offer you, when you come face to face with your worst nightmares, when you are an alien to the world around you, when all the dross has burned away, what remains? What truths sustain the purpose of your every breath? My reflection has brought me to the words from one of my favorite worship songs, “Knowing You”:

All I once held dear, built my life upon                                 
All this world reveres, and wars to own
All I once thought gain, I have counted loss
Spent and worthless now, compared to this    
Knowing you Jesus, Knowing you
There is no greater thing

It happened very suddenly and all at once. March 15, 2015, came and went with a marked impression. All that I had come to possess in this world of seeming value was decimated to ash and smoke. This fire came into my life with a taste of finality; it did not even allow me the decency of a good fight. I arrived at the scene too late to be of any help. Because I had the only key to my bedroom, they were not able to force entry for some time, and by then the fire had devoured its fill.

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