Remember when we talked about Real Kids, Real Faith by Marie Yust? I thought of it in the fabric store the other day. A perky dark eyed, dark skinned, dark haired pre-schooler sat in a cart while her mom in Indian dress/pants/scarf was buying fabric. This little girl engaged a couple of older fair-skinned 8-10 year old girls in conversation.
"What's your name?" The American girls told her their names. "Mine is..." The American girls listened and looked at her without trying to pronounce her name. Then the little girl said in the same conversational voice, "We're Indian. We go to temple."
And I thought, a little girl in a foreign land, fearless and kind - what a wonderful sense of identify she has. And it reminded me of Yust's book and the things she said about our giving our own children that profound sense of faith culture and identity.
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