From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 929)
May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 29:11
Someone asked me today how my day was, and I realized it felt almost perfect – a short air raid at night allowed me to sleep in bed, and there was no air raid in the morning, which meant no traffic on our way to school, and it was a third day in a row without power outages. It doesn’t take much to make us happy – we long for a simple and uneventful life.
Today, my students were journaling and pondering the question, “If I could live in a different time period, what would I choose and why?” Some of them wrote about dinosaurs. Others wanted to go to Ancient Egypt. One of them wanted to live in the days of Jesus to be able to talk to him and answer his questions. But one student left me at a loss for words, “If I could choose a different time period, I would choose the time when there was no war in Ukraine because I would like to know what it is like to live without war. I wish I could go to the Black Sea in Crimea because my parents tell me it is beautiful there. I want to live in a time without bombs or air raids. ” This student was born in 2014 when Russia began its aggression against Ukraine with the invasion of Crimea and eastern regions of Ukraine, and this journal entry pierces my heart.
I know that the Lord will establish His justice. I know that he collects all of the tears of Ukrainian children, even the ones that won’t be shed. Yet I wish those who brought this heartache to our land could just for one moment experience this excruciating pain we have been living with for ten years now.
But the Lord will give us strength to endure whatever comes our way.
Voice of Ukraine 