SEASONS
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 8:22
Spring crept upon the Jilin Province. Each day, dawn awakened the lush Sanhe countryside a little earlier than the day before. The sparrows in the woods behind our home warbled, and the warm winds from the southwest melted away the last of the snow and ice.
As I regained my strength little by little, I took over most of the domestic duties at the safe house, allowing So-Young more time to tend to the sick and impoverished in Sanhe. Mr. Kim and Kwan, in addition to their daytime employment, were working to build an extension off the safe house that would provide two extra rooms for refugees. The Tumen River was running quickly now, nearly overflowin
