Category: Updates
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1/31/2023 – Do what you can
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 341): By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.Psalm 41:11 I often say that this war takes us on a wild rollercoaster ride, often leaving you dizzy and nauseous. You try to find balance but end up swinging from…
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1/31/2023 – PTSD and PTSG
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (340th day of ruzzian invasion): I just learned a new term – Post-traumatic growth. It refers to positive psychological change resulting from a struggle with traumatic or highly challenging life circumstances. Before I only knew of post-traumatic stress disorder. There is a growing concern about the psychological trauma Ukrainians going…
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1/31/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lyuda (Day 342): Dear brothers and sisters,Our day yesterday was warm and sunny, the snow began melting and there was a lot of water on the ground but in the evening it became frosty again and everything froze. I had a walk and thought how fast can God change things, sometimes we are not…
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1/30/2023 – God is at work even when we don’t see or don’t notice it
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 340): I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.Psalm 40:10 As we approach the one-year anniversary of the current invasion, it’s getting harder to come to terms…
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1/30/2023 – A 9 Year War
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (340th day of ruzzian invasion): My 340 day count started with the big invasion in Feb 2022, but this war is going on for 9 years now. Facebook reminds of one of the trips we made in 2016 to Avdiivka. That day we distributed aid in kindergarten “Joy” and the…
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1/30/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lyuda (Day 341): Dear brothers and sisters,Today is the start of the new week and we wake up with the sound of the alarm. I’m trying to imagine the missiles and drones that fly to our cities and the people who launch them, then I start praying and soon the message comes that the…
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1/29/2023 – Movie: Munich – The Edge War
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (338th day of ruzzian invasion): Now FB brings in the Memory section more and more posts from last year that remind me how we were already aware of the invasion that was about to start. I reread my post about this Netflix movie last year and I wouldn’t change a…
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1/29/2023 – Belgorod Dnestrovsky
From Lyuda (Day 340): Dear brothers and sisters,We woke up in a beautiful morning. It was snowing all night and everything is white. Snow has always brought joy, but this time all thoughts are about the soldiers, about those who sleep in the trenches, who are in the open air. Dear God, warm them, please,…
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1/28/2023 – Genocide becomes possible when ordinary people, perhaps even kind-hearted and well-meaning people, allow propaganda to corrupt their thinking…
From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 338): Do not forsake me, O Lord! O my God, be not far from me!Psalm 38:21 January 27 is the International Holocaust Memorial Day. It is vital for us, the human race, to know and remember, no matter how sensitive matters may be. If we remember the horrors of…
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1/28/2023 – “The Longest Journey”
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (337th day of ruzzian invasion): Some time ago, I read Oksana Zabuzhko’s book “The Longest Journey.” The book was written since the war started and published in Kharkiv while the city was under constant artillery fire. The book explains the current war with ruzzia in two dimensions – one is…
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