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18 January 2007
Finishing What Was Started.
I heard this at Urbana, while praying right before Communion. It was unexpected. The most beautiful thing that had ever been shared between C. and I was incomplete. When I interceded as those who had hurt her, I did not intercede against the girl who had called her devastating things. I saw it as an internal discussion, one I was not a party to. I gave quarter to an attack from the enemy, when I could have rebuked it. I was wrong not to fight for her in this.
I do not know how to say this thing. If God has given me these words, then may He give me a platform from which to say them in a language she can receive. I will wait, and pray for another miracle.
Here are those words.
‘Somewhere in your head, there is still the voice of a fourteen-year-old girl who has forgotten your name, whispering that you are still a white girl with a tan. I rebuke her. She was as wrong then as she is now. You are Latina, not because you have proved it or earned it, not because of your cross-cultural ministry or your academic work, not because of your words or your music or your clothes or anything else. You are Latina because Jesus saw fit to adorn His beautiful daughter with curly hair, tan skin, dark eyes, a passionate heart, feet that feel rhythm, and a hundred other things that bring glory to Him. You have nothing to prove. You are Latina because you are His and because that is how He loves you. Enter into the joy of the things you have done for your people, in the security that you are of your people. You are a woman who will set a people free. But that never was the price for admission. They were always your people, given to you by God, who also gave you to them, and no fourteen-year-old can ever, ever take that away.’
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This girl will achieve a lot in her life,as she knows her own value. This feature is so seldom met nowadays, unfortunately. She also knows that God is watching her, so her actions won't be impudent, as she lives, according to God's rules. Her conscience is enough pure now and if she goes on living like that, she'll be rewarded according to her deserts.
P.S. why your e-mail is nevedimka?ti russkii cito-li?
Posted by: July | 27 January 2007
Hi July.
Thanks for your comment.
Ya zheliayu shto ty prav. Za etogo ya maliyucya. (Maya grammatika uzhashnaya. Prosti.)
Zhil v ukrianye polhoda, rabotal s tserkvami baptistami, i tam uchil' Russkiy yasik. Ukraina I rossiya klassniye strani. Lyudi ochen' khoroshiye.
S Bogom,
Dave
Posted by: Dave | 30 January 2007