The Letter She Didn't Have to Write
In 2018, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Healy in Galway, Ireland, read a small newspaper article about a Syrian refugee family struggling to resettle in...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 40:7-11.
In 2018, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Healy in Galway, Ireland, read a small newspaper article about a Syrian refugee family struggling to resettle in her town. No organization asked her to respond. No committee assigned her a task. She simply sat down at her kitchen table and wrote the family a letter of welcome — in English, with a Arabic phrasebook open beside her, tucking in a few stumbling words of greeting in their language.…
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