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What is Required?

February 27, 2019 By admin

“Great! Now that you’re done with that dissertation nonsense, you can focus on getting married and having babies!”

Wait. What?!

I had to ask her to repeat what she had just said to me because I could not believe it. I was on the phone with a close family friend who had called to ask me how my dissertation defense went. My parents had called her and asked her to pray for me and she decided to call me to check up on the product of her prayer and to, of course, give me a little life advice.

She went on to inform me that despite my degrees, “A woman is nothing without children.”

And this entire conversation happened in Spanish, so it sounded a lot worse.

I wish that I could say that I had taken the high road: That I had politely disagreed and hung up the phone, but that would be a lie.

I laid into her. I let her know exactly what I thought about children. Hers in particular.

I’ve had some time to think about that conversation. Despite what was said to me, I’m sad that I used my words to tear somebody down just because I didn’t agree with what they said.

Maybe the reason that it is so easy to judge the choices of others is because we’ve put some much thought into our own. I’m willing to bet that my family friend put in as much thought and prayer into leaving school and having children as I did when I decided to apply for graduate school. Maybe that whole conversation could have been avoided if we had taken the time to empathize with each other.

That phone call is in the past and there is nothing that I can do to change that. But I hope that in the future my conversation with those whose life choices differ from my own will go something like this:

“You just graduated? How will you use your degree to act justly?”

“You’re engaged?! What a great opportunity to learn to love mercy!”

“I’m sorry that your marriage fell apart. Please let me know how I can support you as you walk humbly with your God.”

Because, after all, that’s all that really matters.

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you?
 To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah 6:8, NIV).

Jael Amador writes from New York, New York.

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Just a Tag

February 18, 2019 By admin

Today I brought home several items of clothing from visiting one of my favorite department stores. As I cut off the offending price and other tags inside my new jeans, one small tag had a red colored sticker with the number 27. Like many other purchases there was a tag that included the manufacturing country of origin. Number 27 had sewn my new jeans in Indonesia.

So many of my purchases have come from China, a few from India, Vietnam or sometimes the United States, but most are from places far from my home. Rarely do I stop to think about the very real people that make the food, clothes, furniture or appliances that I bring home. But today, I stopped for a second to thank that unknown woman somewhere in Indonesia who sits at a sewing machine. Does she work slow or fast? Does she ever get a raise? Does she have dreams for her life?

Years ago I worked with a head injury rehabilitation company as a job coach. My client was a young man who survived a terrible car accident and could no longer master his former occupation. So I helped him find a job that required minimal skills sweeping in a clothing factory. For several weeks we both went into a factory where women rushed out to go home as we were entering in mid-afternoon. The clothing in that small factory was destined for delivery to the chain of a well-known large discount department store. The manager showed us around the floor where Sam would work, and chatted for a few minutes on some days. There was no air conditioning in the building, so in the summer the women came to work at 3:00 or 4:00 AM so they could leave by noon before the worst heat. All year they worked long hours in a large noisy, dusty room.

My client didn’t last long sweeping at the clothing factory. He managed slow work with a broom around rows of sewing machines. He and his family believed that sweeping was beneath his dignity and it messed up their routine. I have not forgotten our weeks at the factory nor the women that sit at noisy machines making our linens and clothing. Perhaps they will soon be replaced by robots or other machines. But for now I wonder about the life of No. 27 somewhere in Indonesia. I wish I could tell her “thank you” and that I really like my jeans.

Questions for personal journaling or group discussion:

1. What was your first paying job and what did you learn from that experience?
2. What forms of manual labor provide for your lifestyle, clothing or meals?

Karen Spruill writes from Orlando, Florida.

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In Jamaica, six-year-old preacher inspires third baptism in two years

February 16, 2019 By admin

His voice, was as clear as crystal, but it was what six-year-old Dakarai Williams said that held thousands of worshipers in rapt attention at the Lord Transform Me Convention held at the Montego Bay Convention Center in Jamaica on Feb. 9, 2019.
“Two years ago l was asked to be baptized but l said, I cannot get baptize and go to heaven leaving my mother behind to go to hell,” said Dakarai. “It touched my mom’s heart. She must have seen how sad l looked.  But Guess what!” asked Dakarai and,…

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Jesus’ Example in Humility

February 15, 2019 By admin

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. John 13:14, 15. There is in man a disposition to esteem himself more highly than his brother, to work for self, to seek the highest place; and often this results in evil surmisings and bitterness of spirit. The ordinance preceding the Lord’s Supper is to clear away these misunderstandings, to bring man out of his selfishness, down from his stilts of self-exaltation, to the humility of heart that will lead him to serve his brother

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Article posted on en.intercer.net from Rose’s Devotional.

Rose’s Devotionals are prepared by Rose Hartwell, one of the Intercer founders. Since 1999, Rose sends out a daily devotional newsletter that includes a commentary on a Bible passage, a list of prayer requests for the current week and an illustration from daily life that applies to the Bible passage in study.

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Life Health Foods teams up with former Olympian

February 15, 2019 By admin

Life Health Foods AU (LHF) has teamed up with former Olympian Stephanie Rice to increase awareness of the benefits of following a plant-based diet and to encourage Australians to eat more plant-based foods.
Since partnering with Rice in 2018, LHF brand Vegie Delights has launched a number of marketing campaigns and activities that promote a plant-based diet as being not only good for health, but also for animal welfare and the environment.
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