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  • Blog - Travel

    Immigration Breakthrough in Spain

    I’ve been living in Spain for over six years. September will make it seven. For the last two and a half years, I have been waiting for my residency permit. Earlier this year, someone else’s testimony encouraged me and helped me fight for a breakthrough in prayer. It is a beautiful story that I want to share. Here’s how it went: Student, Then Work I first came to Spain as a student through an English language assistant program, designed for native English speakers to support conversations and other activities in Spanish classrooms. It was a fun and challenging season, and…

  • Blog - Lifestyle

    The Blessing and Discomfort of Creativity

    I remember having a conversation a couple of years ago with one of my friends. She’s Jamaican, living in France. I’m Jamaican, living in Spain. What are the odds? We found ourselves talking about the same thing many creatives seem to wrestle with: bringing our ideas to life. We may have dozens of ideas. Some new. Some that had been sitting in notebooks or half-finished documents for years. We will feel an excitement of imagining what could be created, but also the frustration of organisation and follow-through. Having ideas is one thing.  But bringing them into the world is another.…