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“Consider it a great joy, believers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1:2-4 Dear Prayer Partners, As I write this, all my spring semester work is turned in, I am waiting for grades, sighing with relief. It has been a long nine months since orientation started at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. The old-fashioned term for a second-year student is “middler,” not a beginner anymore, but not finished. Aren’t we all middlers? Who knew? Who knew every student, every professor would be attending classes via Zoom from their homes all year? Who knew then that the pandemic that was declared in March (but had probably started back in December) still would be with us today? Mike and I are stunned that no one from our rather large families ended up in the hospital – only a few family members even cont...