But then a remarkable thing happened: Despite my distress, I stopped praying for myself. For the first time in my life, I found myself praying for others. And then I realized why I was there. The feeling had been growing in me for some time now. I had read a powerful book called Don’t Beat Someone, Even with Flowers, written by a famous Korean actress and humanitarian named Kim Hye Ja, who became an ambassador for the World Vision International charity after she was taken on a tour of Ethiopia’s famine camps in the 1990s. Her moving account of the misery in Africa, India, and other places
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