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It is not always easy to do the right thing. Sometimes we are thrust into a situation where it is not immediately clear what action to take. Cecilia recalls a moment when she was seventeen years old. She was enjoying a dinner with her family and some friends. A good friend said something that set her off, that if the United States ever went to war against a Central American country her parents would be sent to an internment camp. "It never occurred to me that we were anything but an American family," she reflects.
"My outrage that day became the propellant of my life," Cecilia claims, "driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I've worked ever since." Her first job she helped fifty immigrant families a day. She has a heart to help people fueled by her faith. She has a "deep sense of gratitude" knowing that she is "doing my small part to make things better."
The apostle Paul was writing to his friend, Philemon, to encourage him to do the right thing. Onesimus worked for Philemon and then ran away. He met up with Paul and other believers and soon became a believer. Paul urged Onesimus to do the right thing and go back to Philemon. Paul hoped that Philemon would also do the right thing and welcome Onesimus back treating him not as a fugitive from the law but as a brother in the Lord. "For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty," Paul wrote, "yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love."
"My outrage that day became the propellant of my life," Cecilia claims, "driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I've worked ever since." Her first job she helped fifty immigrant families a day. She has a heart to help people fueled by her faith. She has a "deep sense of gratitude" knowing that she is "doing my small part to make things better."
The apostle Paul was writing to his friend, Philemon, to encourage him to do the right thing. Onesimus worked for Philemon and then ran away. He met up with Paul and other believers and soon became a believer. Paul urged Onesimus to do the right thing and go back to Philemon. Paul hoped that Philemon would also do the right thing and welcome Onesimus back treating him not as a fugitive from the law but as a brother in the Lord. "For this reason, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do your duty," Paul wrote, "yet I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love."
