Week three

[Don]

In chapter 12 Zoya returns to Kabul on a mission from RAWA. She writes, "Kabul was a graveyard." Her description of the violence and waste is severe. How do we as Christians respond to the knowledge that people live in such conditions?

[Don]

"The children around me laughed and clapped," so says Zoya in Chapter 13 as she viewed the "cutting of hands." As kids grow they assume what they experience is normal because they have no other frame of reference. Zoya goes on to talk about the challenge of educating children in the Afghan environment. they are only a few but they could determine the future. Makes me think that we have not done enough for kids and young adults in our churches.

[Don]

In chapter 14 she writes regarding the popularity of the movie Titanic, "Nothing the Taliban did could quench the thirst of the people in a country where forced marriages were the rule for a story of undying love." I think the same is true in our relationship to god and our need for his undying love.

[Don]

In chapter 15 Zoya begins her work in the refugee camp and tells the story of a woman who lost her son in a massacre. What can we do to help people in such conditions?