“discernment”
Discernment is a spiritual gift, given to us by the grace of God.
Doesn’t that mean that this gift should be used WITH grace?
Lord, make me grace-full…
What would you call the slaughter of 48.5 million innocent babies?
Kathi Sharpe
I'm a church planter, missionary, freelance writer, web designer, and laid-down lover of Jesus from Level Cross, NC. I'm married with 3 wonderful grown children. We're currently planting a church and planning a missions trip back to Jamaica. I couldn't ask for a better life!
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April 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
You left this comment on my Lunar Skeletons blog: “Come and visit Level Cross, NC… you’ll see it. Now. Today.
Could you please elaborate?
April 28th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Heya Oengus! Good to see you over here.
You’d said something in your blog to the effect of, “Will I one day see really really poor people in the US?”
I think most folks know that in Appalachia there’s a lot of truly poor folks. What they don’t realize is that there’s plenty of poverty all around.
We know families that live off less than $500 a month plus whatever they can scavenge and sell. Families that lived without heat this past winter and will live without AC this summer. People who eat from the trash cans behind our one restaurant here in town. A couple lives in the pine trees behind one of the churches.
This isn’t the inner city either - it’s reality in semi-rural NC.
All this in the shadow of King Petty’s shop and home too (not that it’s his fault. Just that people see the affluence and assume the whole town’s that way.)