Everyone’s seen her. Many know her simply as “The Girl in the Picture.” The photographer won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for photography. Justifiably so, since possibly no other picture captures the atrocity known as the Vietnam War.
She survived that day. Kind of — she experiences pain to this day. I’m told she lives today about an hour’s drive from where I do. She travels and speaks about her experience, which is also the subject of a July, 2001 Penguin book by Denise Chong appropriately titled, The Girl in the Picture.
But there’s another person involved in this story who is not in the picture. That’s the story you need to read today. Click on this link to the blog, Girl in a Glass House.
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GiaGH is a blog which has a real community of followers who leave some great comments. I didn’t mind stealing the following from last month’s comment page since it’s a reprint.
| Lewis Smedes: “Paul ran from Christ; Christ pursued and overtook him. Paul resisted Christ; Christ disarmed him. Paul persecuted Christ; Christ converted him. Paul was an alien; Christ made him a member of the family. Paul was an enemy; Christ made him a friend. Paul was ‘in the flesh’; Christ set him ‘in the Spirit.’ Paul was under the law; Christ set him in grace. Paul was dead; Christ made him alive to God. How does one give reasons for this? He does not give reasons; he sings, ‘Blessed be God who blessed us . . . even as he chose us in him.’” Lewis B. Smedes, Union With Christ, pages 86-87. (seen on a comment left two weeks ago at Girl in A Glass House blog.) |
Some explanation of yesterday’s Christianity Today poll results is necessary. There is a backstory, and you’ll find it in yesterday’s comments with our thanks to Jon Rising at the blog Word & Spirit.
Hi, nice post.
I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.
I’ll certainly be coming back to your site.
Comment by kellyamareta — May 6, 2009 @ 8:34 pm