When one reads the stories...
When one reads the stories of many of the immigrants who make their way from war-torn
or impoverished countries to the United States, you could say that they have been
transferred out of kingdoms of darkness to a kingdom of light.
Consider the story of Linda Thong who escaped from Vietnam. Linda's father was killed
in the war when was she was ten years old. Her mother raised her and her siblings as best
she could, but it was very hard. Linda married when she was still a child herself, at
seventeen. She, her husband, and their two daughters fled from Vietnam to Thailand by
