by Paulette Williams | Mar 21, 2022 | NSA Meditations Blog
Lea awakens just before sunrise. Her almost blank mind turns to an egg and bacon breakfast; then she remembers that she is on the church’s Daniel fast. Fasting during Lent was not new to Lea; as a teenager she had given up chocolate, pizza, sodas (but never her...
by Paulette Williams | Mar 14, 2022 | NSA Meditations Blog
March 2020, a national quarantine was mandated, because the COVID-19 virus was voraciously taking lives here and across the globe at a rate that had not seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. Schools were abruptly closed. Initially, it was thought that the closures would...
by Paulette Williams | Mar 6, 2022 | NSA Meditations Blog
The Swat Valley is called the “Switzerland of Pakistan” because of its snow-capped mountains and beautiful scenery. Education is another beauty of Swat. When the British left Pakistan, the first ruler of the Swat Valley in 1922, though uneducated himself, supported...
by Paulette Williams | Feb 28, 2022 | NSA Meditations Blog
In 1896, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the “separate but equal” doctrine. Black and white people could have a “separate but equal” way of living. The ruling never was a reality. In every facet of life Black people were despairingly...
by Paulette Williams | Feb 21, 2022 | NSA Meditations Blog
The Civil War had been over for forty-nine years. When Reconstruction in the South ended thirty-nine years earlier, their voices were silenced with violence. African Americans were full citizens who were lynched, raped, and brutally beaten. In 1914, some with...
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