As Christians we must learn...
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As Christians we must learn to see things from God's perspective. Take Thelma Thompson for example. During the second World War Thelma Thompson's husband was in the military. Somehow they ended up being stationed in the Mohave Desert which Thelma despised. Everyone around her seemed to speak Spanish or an Indian dialect and she spoke neither.
Worst of all it seemed that everything she ate and everything she wore and everything she touched was covered with sand. Finally she could stand it no more and so she wrote to her parents that she was coming home.
Her mother was very wise and did not argue, she simply sent her two lines from a poem: "Two men looked out from prison bars, One man saw mud, the other stars."
Thelma looked at those lines and decided that she could begin changing her world by changing her outlook. She became friends with many of the Mexicans and native Americans who lived around her. She learned how they wove and how they made their pottery. They gave her many of these items which they considered too fine for tourists. She made herself an expert on Yucca plants, Joshua trees, and prairie dogs. She took pictures and wrote articles. She even began exploring the desert to find sea shells left from a prehistoric era.
Eventually Thelma Thompson wrote a book all about this. She titled the book Bright Ramparts.
-- Piazza
Worst of all it seemed that everything she ate and everything she wore and everything she touched was covered with sand. Finally she could stand it no more and so she wrote to her parents that she was coming home.
Her mother was very wise and did not argue, she simply sent her two lines from a poem: "Two men looked out from prison bars, One man saw mud, the other stars."
Thelma looked at those lines and decided that she could begin changing her world by changing her outlook. She became friends with many of the Mexicans and native Americans who lived around her. She learned how they wove and how they made their pottery. They gave her many of these items which they considered too fine for tourists. She made herself an expert on Yucca plants, Joshua trees, and prairie dogs. She took pictures and wrote articles. She even began exploring the desert to find sea shells left from a prehistoric era.
Eventually Thelma Thompson wrote a book all about this. She titled the book Bright Ramparts.
-- Piazza
