Zephaniah 3:14-20

She was a young woman when a new job took her from Georgia to California. She was a frail 86 year-old when the landlord’s call came. “Your aunt must move out so that we can repair the water damage.” Although she had made choices that isolated her from family and friends, she was still the beloved aunt who had remembered birthdays, saved treasured correspondence, and was still able to share family stories we had never heard. We brought her home to Atlanta. Home where she had grown from a gangly immigrant child into a beautiful young woman. Home where there was family to visit. Home where she could be watched over in her final years.

Zephaniah tells of God’s promised future, “At that time I will bring you home.” Aunt Bee was able to experience loving care until God welcomed her into her eternal home four years later.

Bea Favre, Akaloo Coordinator