"..If we want true friendship with God, we can't run away from the requirement that God--in kindness, in an effort to become our friend, to become our confidant, so we can have trust in Him--allows us to be pushed by the vicissitudes of mortality to the extremities of experience."

In a life that includes moving twenty-plus times, most of them internationally, author and activist Melissa Dalton-Bradford has learned that home is a concept more than a place, and that we connect to each other--whatever our religion or nationality or languages--in the deepest places; our sorrows and our faith.

(See the fruits of some of Melissa's efforts with refugees at: https://tsosrefugees.org/ )

Melissa Dalton-Bradford