“May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.”
— a Franciscan benediction
The stories of Kate Bushnell, Edgar Murphy and Jessie Daniel Ames can be found in Good News About Injustice: A Witness of Courage in a Hurting World by Gary A. Haugen (Inter Varsity Press, 1999). The account of the heroism at Le Chambon is told in Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie (see the “I Recommend” page).
[Phil Stout]
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