Sunday, August 14, 2016

She had her first child through incest.  And then a young man saw her and liked what he saw.  She went to live in his village.  With his parents, actually.  They were together for three years and she had two more children.  And then her father complained.  He said the guy had had his daughter long enough.  It was time to pay the bride price.  She must come back home and bring her three babies with her until things could be arranged.  At first the young man said he would come and marry her in October.  Between now and then he would meet with her father and discuss the bride price.  She was so thrilled.  To think there was someone somewhere in this world who loved her enough to actually pay the bride price and marry her!  But three months have gone by and she has finally woken up to the fact that the fairy tale is over.  He's never come to see her father.  He never contacts her.  She says he's forgotten all about his children.  And she is devastated.  Hers is an all too common story.  We never wonder why we are here.  People need the Lord.

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