Sad. The exploitation of children in the name of religion. In the name of Allah or God, does it matter? Lured or sold, taught or trained, poverty and vulnerability, always why.
If the World could live by one verse, my choice would be Micah 6:8 … “to be fair and just and merciful, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Does it really need to be more complicated than that?
Book Synopsis “Dear Daisy”
Dear Daisy, nonfiction, reads as life is presented day-to-day and by seasons. The author, a gifted storyteller invites the reader into the world and relationship between an illiterate migrant woman sharing her wisdom with a boss man’s child under cherry and apple trees during the early 1960′s. Daisy, an Angel on Earth years later mystically reappears an Angel from Heaven to guide the grown child on her pathway back Home.
Dear Daisy tells a story 2000 years old yet reminds us how challenges continue to play out and that we each contribute to writing the story.
As the story begins, the author caught in a personal struggle of survival under conditions felt oppressive, writes to Daisy. As the reflective search for self and path unfolds, the 9-11-01 story strikes as a Holy War between extremists of Nations. Before the dust settles, 10-28-01 brings world chaos personal. Living the aftermath, the author struggles to forgive and declares through writing an Epistle as part of her emancipation pathway that violence as a rightful expression and worship of God is not the God of her faith.
…And why there will be “Rising Sparrow” …for the children I write.
