Food preparation and the sharing of food is an important part of the life of our house. It brings us together in fellowship as nothing else can do. We commiserate much and laugh even more with each other around the kitchen dinner. Over meals, we learn about each other and from each other. We encourage each other on our journeys. I suspect that our meals give us those precious few moments that remind us that we are not alone in our journeys and struggles. In the photo on the right we see the first meal one of our asylee housemates cooked for himself with the coaching of another housemate. A highly accomplished in his home country, he had never had to cook for himself. Now that he is separated from his wife and children, he has to pick up domestic skills that was once not expected of him and he is doing so with relish. It is a blessing to the rest of us that we can be a part of his new life.