Last year when Kitchn published this essay, we had no idea that refugees would be such a huge political issue in 2017. (Sure, we had some idea — and some major concerns — but refugees are being faced with more than we ever could have imagined.) With the events of the year in mind, we are resurfacing this piece in order to spark conversation and hopefully illustrate how food and family unite us all, no matter where we’re from or what we believe.
When I received the text saying our sponsored family had arrived from Jordan and were en route to my home, I felt a profound sense of relief. Although I hadn’t met them yet, I cared deeply for their well-being. For months prior, I hadn’t been able to shake images of the horrors happening in Syria. Cities leveled, lives ruined, desperate parents trying to escape the country to provide a better life for their children.
Unable to turn a blind eye, my husband and I joined a sponsorship group, and made the decision to open our home to a refugee family from Syria.
from WordPress https://jonathanwilhoite.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/a-syrian-refugee-familys-first-thanksgiving-my-first-thanksgiving-2/
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