I don’t know how long I will remain in West Virginia. But I am beginning to understand why staying matters. Not because this place is perfect, but because I am not. And it is here—among these hills, these people, and these limits—that God is asking me to become someone new. Not somewhere else. Not someday... here.

It is important to consider that borders do not come from God; they are man-made constructs. They are nothing less than the result of humanities struggle to get along. In short, borders are the direct result of our seemingly inability to love one another. If we acknowledge then that borders are the result of our own sinful nature then perhaps we might not cling to them so tightly.

2 Chronicles 7:14 is not God handing out a technique for managing public crisis. It is God speaking to a covenant people whose spiritual life has grown disordered. It is not mainly about controlling outcomes. It is about returning to the God they have drifted from. It is not about earning intervention. It is about becoming the kind of people who can receive healing from the inside out.