Saturday, 23 December, 2017*

                                  (Image Matthew 25 :31ff) 

                  ___________Zechariah 8:16,17

These

are 

the 

things 

that 

you 

shall 

do: 

speak the truth to onet another,

render in your gates judg-

ments that are true and make 

for peace, Do not devise evil in 

your hearts against one another, 

and love no false oath, for  all these

  are the things I hate, says the Lord. 

 *Yesterday we also 
had CHarlotte Diggs (Lottie) Moon  a 4’3” Baptist follower of Christ, born in VA. in 840 who was called to 
be a missionary &spent 40 years in China work-ing mostly with women & girls. She died there on Christmas eve 1914. 

At first I was going to skip over today’s saint... who cares?   But I am glad that I did't gibve  in to my basest impulse. Because it turns out I care - as a Christian, as a woman and as an American in today’s world. (Imagine! ) The theme Converting and being converted! - and I didn’t get it until the very last thing I read  and it's too good to have missed!  The very Last piece I got, as I was looking for a second graphic for her, was that she was born in CHarloteville, Va!  ANd I laughed out loud! 

Check this out from Holy Women, Holy Men: 

“At first she kept herself aloof from the Chinese, thinking them her cultural inferiors. Over time, however, she found a deep respect for Chinese culture, adopting not only their language but their dress and customs. As she wrote, “It is comparatively easy to give oneself to mission work, but it is not easy to give one-self to an alien people. Yet the latter is much better and truer work than the former.”