On June 27, 2013, after driving 12 hours from the Poconos to Chicago, I became an immigrant.

So often the presence of Christ in our lives is revealed to us only in hindsight, when we have the opportunity to look back and reflect.

It is easy to create borders and bubbles. Sometime the suburbs can feel like another country and US soldiers might feel like foreigners to many of us. But suburbians, and Afghan women, and American soldiers are really all part of the same human nation. And when we treat each other with compassion without creating borders or boundaries, we are sharing the light to the nations.