What does protection look like when something really does happen? A midday analysis of Justus’s Day, and a companion piece to “Three Warm Towels,” examining protection, accountability, truth, trauma, caregiving, and the family’s movement from emergency back toward ordinary life.
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Three Warm Towels
We don’t know why the faucet was running. We do know what happened next. On Justus’s Day, a flooded bedroom becomes a story about three warm towels, a little peanut butter monster, telling the truth, caring for our home, and discovering that when plans change, our course doesn’t have to.
The Protector and the Page
What happens when an eleven-year-old protector who has always understood love through duty and work discovers that his family no longer needs him to save the old world? On Justus’s Day, we begin learning that freedom requires something different.
Notes from the Treehouse 