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Sunday April 22,  2012                      Daily Blog                  John W                   Previous 2012 blogs

 

Dear Friends

Hope you have seen "this week's smile" on lower right hand side of main menu. 

Yesterday at a detention centre my heart went out to a man aged about 40
who has been sentenced for 2 months.
The man is blind.
Normally I don't ask inmates "why are you here",
but yesterday I did ask, and the answer was "for theft".

I let the conversation stop there, but still scratching my head wondering
how a blind man could steal anything.

I also kept thinking: couldn't there be an alternative form of "punishment" for a blind man?
Doesn't seem right to send a blind person to prison, especially not for a minor offence

Reminds me of another occasion in the same detention centre
where I met a man with no arms. 
One of his fellow inmates, with the man's smiling approval,
joked that the man was in for pickpocketing

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On this 22nd of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Zhejiang
(Please join me in praying for one part of China each day of the month)

My  Bible Plan for today = the readings of the 3rd Sunday of Easter

Thank you for a prayer

God bless!

John W

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