Jewels on the Sidewalk
My dear friend Katherine Morgan (the spiritual mother I wrote about in the May/June'85 issue) writes from Colombia:
"I have long felt that most of the family and social problems today can be traced directly to the fact of woman being out of her God-given place and consequently forcing man out of his. Most women cannot see the slightest thing wrong with it, and neither can their short-sighted husbands. Their argument here is that even with two salaries coming in, they can hardly scrape by. When one points out that half of the things they have they don't need, and that what they call their 'needs' are not nearly so great as their children's need of them as parents, they just look at one and look blank. I often ask mothers if they ever leave their color television set or their jewel box with the jewels in it out on the sidewalk when they go to work. They look astonished at the silly question. Then comes the query, 'Do your children compare in value with those things? Yet you leave them out all day on the street to have their morals, their culture, and their souls stolen by thieves who play in the neighborhood."'
this article was written in 1986......that is 25 yrs ago...in light of recent events most notably the riots in UK one cannot help but see the truth in Elisabeth Elliot's words....the jewels have been left on the streets to be the friends of rioters, thieves and murders....wakes one up to the need of today....
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