My wife Susan and I took a dream trip to Zambia and South Africa last year. My son Rod (then in the Peace Corps) took us to Chonwe village about 40 minutes from Lusaka, where he had lived with his "home family" in preparation for his stint in the bush there. On the way to his former "home" we met the lad in the picture here. Something about his the biblical passage on the T-shirt he wore ("for God so loved the world…"), his serious countenance and the fish he'd caught all seemed to work together in a way beyond the telling.

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