God's Will
God's will be hard to decern at the best of times, but when he calls you to move from a place that you love back to a site that is harder to live, it tests the limits of your faith. But here I am, back in Appalachia, back in the Ohio Valley. a place that once built the wealth and prosperity of Ohio, and yet now is the place where poverty has made it a shell of what it was. Once, this place grew fields of corn and tobacco. Families made their livelihood, and the wealth of the land grew wealth and power. Now, poverty, drugs, and depression have replaced wealth. The fields now lay fallow and empty. The once-great homes are falling apart, decaying even further through the years—the once powerful and wealthy cities of Portsmouth and Huntington. Once known for being men of industry and national influence, they are now known for poverty and drugs. When I was in Texas, I was in an area with a lot of wealth, jobs were plentiful, and you could feel the freedom in the air. How things were no