If It Falls

And why If it Falls? It comes from an expression in Spanish—if you drop something, you don’t say ‘I dropped it’, you say ‘it fell’—the implication is that some things just happen. They are nobody’s fault. They are out of our control.

Naomi Young-Rodas is a minister in the United Reformed Church. She lived and worked in Guatemala in the 1990s during the last years of the civil war; briefly teaching English and then working with the Presbyterian Church of Guatemala. She was involved in the search for Manuel Saquic and the appeals for justice.