Monday, April 27, 2015

Work In The City

I have often encountered in ministry the stories of young people who have come to the city for work. It is more than just a change of location. It may be a huge cultural shift. I myself have an aunt who, when she was young, lost her hair through the distress of a related experience. Here's the story that one young maid told me. Her impoverished family sent her to the city to earn some money and send it back home. She was fifteen at the time. She suddenly found herself, for the first time, without the close communal living of home. Instead she was put in a small, lonely room, with a door that closed. They didn't have doors back home. At home, too, she used to "talk with her body", she said. But in the city, they talked with words, and found her body-talk offensive. She said that she felt desolate.

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