Lent 45
The last Lent good news story comes from the Upper Nile area of Egypt and concerns a young couple,Sally and Akram, who are the first from their village to marry across the Christian/ Muslim divide.Sally and Akram's wedding
Thanks to mylodon for sharing this Lent and to our readers and occasional commenters -as it turns out the 'news' in the mainstream media and the nutty fruitcake media (sometimes hard to distinguish these days) has been even more dire than we could have known when setting out on the course of deliberately highlighting good news stories.
It makes the stories hard to find, and in the face of the tough stuff it is often tempting to be drawn into going into a different mode, but these stories of boundary= crossing kindness and love and of the concern for others and the simple actions that change lives, need telling.Just looking for them in itself has been a fascinating exercise.
As you may tell I posted this before going on to read mylodon's entry for Lent 44 -and have managed to highlight the same story :) As it is such a good story I am leaving it up for today as well.
Thanks to mylodon for sharing this Lent and to our readers and occasional commenters -as it turns out the 'news' in the mainstream media and the nutty fruitcake media (sometimes hard to distinguish these days) has been even more dire than we could have known when setting out on the course of deliberately highlighting good news stories.
It makes the stories hard to find, and in the face of the tough stuff it is often tempting to be drawn into going into a different mode, but these stories of boundary= crossing kindness and love and of the concern for others and the simple actions that change lives, need telling.Just looking for them in itself has been a fascinating exercise.
As you may tell I posted this before going on to read mylodon's entry for Lent 44 -and have managed to highlight the same story :) As it is such a good story I am leaving it up for today as well.