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I Have Done Something; I Created You by Mark Buchanan

An excerpt from a letter written by a missionary couple in Brazil:

Driving through the Christmas traffic, fighting the drizzling rain, I chanced on a four-year-old little girl. She was wet and cold and shaking. Her clothes were ragged, her hair was matted, and her nose was running. She walked between the cars at the stoplight, washing headlights because she was too short to wash windshields. A few gave her coins, others honked at her to get away from their vehicles.

As I drove away only some fifty cents poorer, I raged at God for the injustice in the world that allowed the situation. “God, how could you stand by, helpless?” Later that evening, God came to me softly with that still small voice and responded not in kind to my rage, but with tenderness, “I have done something. I created you.”
Mark Buchanan
The Holy Wild
pp. 86-87

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Title: I Have Done Something; I Created You by Mark Buchanan
Date posted: 16 June '05 - 18:48
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