Posted in Justice on Sep 11th, 2013
1. Emily Dickinson called it the thing with feathers. She said it sings the song inside your soul. She said it never stops at all. But what if that little feathered thing is never fed? What if she has nothing to drink? How will she sing with an empty belly and a parched throat? 2. […]
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Posted in Growing in God, Justice on Apr 26th, 2013
My year of prayer is taking an unexpected turn. Or maybe the turn started last Easter, in my first year of prayer, when I felt prompted to learn more about human trafficking, particularly of young girls for sex. What I learned horrified me, to say the least, and I began to write about it. With […]
On our vacation the last week of August, I finished Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas. (The other book I read was Ourselves: Improving Character and Conscience by Charlotte Mason. Who says summer reading has to be light?) Metaxas begins his book by establishing the magnitude of […]
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