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Last summer, I watched an anime called In This Corner of the World. It was about a young Japanese woman who gets married and goes to live with her in-laws outside Hiroshima around the time of WW2. The majority of the film chronicles the family's daily lives during the war, up until the bomb.
While it was a truly, truly beautiful movie, I wasn't obsessed with it as I thought I would be. However, one line did stick with me. Toward the end of the film, the main character tells her husband something along the lines of, "Thank you, for finding me in this corner of the world."
And that idea, of these corners of the world, it puts into words why I love WW2 stories so much. Because so many people were doing what they could in different corners of the world to push back the darkness. Soldiers and nurses. Pilots and civilians. Adults, teens, children. All over the world people were out there, doing what they could.
For many years now, I have used WW2 stories as blueprints for how to live out my own days. I am inspired by the tales of courage, by the tenacity of the human spirit, and by the bright light of the gospel God continued to shine around the world in one of humanity's darkest chapters.
So, here I am, to take something I've learned from this fictional WW2 film and share it with you.
Allow me to be one of the first people this New Year's season to tell you,
thank you.
Thank you for the work you did in 2025. Thank you for showing up and stepping out. Thank you for the days you worked toward your dreams and the days you rested. Thank you for doing the thing, even though you were shaking. Thank you for being a friend to that person who needed one and a comfort to someone who needed that. Thank you for finding someone in your corner of the world, and letting them know they were never alone.
Thank you for all you did in your corner of the world.
Things were so dark and so hard, I know. And maybe more often than not, you were barely hanging on. But dearest, dearest heart, the calendar says 2026. Which means you made it. We MADE IT! We made it through the year!
Now we both know that just because there's a different number in the year, it doesn't necessarily mean that things will magically change. But it does mean that we get to take this time to look back and celebrate the past. Even if it's just to congratulate ourselves for getting through what we really weren't sure we would.
So, good job! Good job, dear reader. Congratulations. You did good! Yes, you.
You did good.
It's a new year, friends, a brand new year. The upcoming days are completely unknown and I know we're all praying and praying for good ones, but no matter what they bring, let's just keep going! In 2026, let's keep doing our best in our corners of the world!
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For last year's new year's post, I shared a fandom tribute that filled me with wonder and hope during the early months of 2020. And we are in luck, for I have another video from that time to share this year.
I hope it blesses you! <3
remember who you are - multifandom. g-grint
(just a heads up, there are brief spoilers for a couple disney/dreamworks films)
"Yes, big eyes. Very big. Because they are full of wonder. That is my center. It is what I was born with. Eyes that have only seen the wonder in everything. Eyes that see lights in the trees and magic in the air."
Santa Claus | Rise of the Guardians
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"Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day."
2 Corinthians 4:16
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