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Monks, Saints, and Birds Falling from the Sky
Posted on Thursday, January 6th, 2011 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: birds falling from the sky, monks, poverty, saints, the body of Christ, trusting God in hard times

As a little Baptist girl, I did not associate with monks, nuns or saints. “Jesus, only Jesus” was my creed (still is!) and I looked with nervous suspicion on icons, religious statues and stories about humans performing miracles. So fearful were we Protestants that we might accidentally worship Mary that we barely acknowledged her at all. …[ read more ]