December 19: The Feast Day of Lillian Trasher - The feast days of the Church introduce me to people I would never
have known about. Lillian Trasher is one of these people. She was born in 1887,
and at 23 she felt called to go to Africa to
serve God. Against the will of her family and with only $100, she settled in Egypt,
and led by circumstances seen to be God’s guidance, she founded an orphanage,
and ran it until the late 1950’s. It is still in operation today, and is funded
almost entirely by the churches in Egypt
.
A story like this
reminds me that sometimes we need to go far away to find ourselves; to break
away from our culture and traditions to find them. And sometimes what others
think is best for us is not always what is best for us. Her journey also is a
great reminder that we do not always know what we are getting into when we
begin our journey; sometimes we just need to make the first step.
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