We got to talk to Anna this afternoon and had the best time hearing about the awe and wonder she soaked up in Antarctica!
Here are a few of the hundreds of stunning pictures she took.... (along with a video of her teaching the Footloose dance to her friends on the trip for them to stay warm!)
"God of every beautiful thing, make us people of wonder. Show us how to hold on to nuance and vision when our souls become addicted to pain, to the unlovely. It is far easier to see the gloom and decay; so often it sings a louder song. Attune our hearts to the good still stirring in our midst, not that we would give ourselves to toxic positivity or neglect the pain of the world, but that we would be people capable of existing in the tension. Grant us habits of sacred pause. Let us marvel not just at the grand or majestic, but beauty’s name etched into every ordinary moment. Let the mundane swell with a mystery that makes us breathe deeper still. And by this, may we be sustained and kept from despair."
-Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies
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