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A Bruised Reed Challenges the Hardest of Hearts

Jeff Thompson October 22, 2018 3 min read

by Ron D. Mallett: Two thousand years ago, the Apostle Paul drew a magnificent verbal picture of humankind’s most enduring moral dilemma! “What do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” –NIV

The struggle between good and evil never abated, but some regions of our world are more clearly dominated by dark forces than illuminated by light.

An Unhappy Record

Among the darkest is Swaziland, a small African nation holding an unholy record as the world’s No. 1 victim of the global AIDS epidemic. Unfortunately, ‘Swazi’ children in this kingdom of deprivation are born into a culture of death, leaving thousands homeless as AIDS takes its unwavering toll on parents.

Further darkening derives from Satanic belief systems in which incest and pedophilia are common, with fathers molesting and raping young boys and girls. Even toddlers face the terrors destroying their bodies, literally, to the point of death. The villains have little fear of legal or social consequences.

The Hard Truth

You don’t believe this could be true? Then read Becky Yates Spencer’s book titled, “A Bruised Reed.” Mrs. Spencer is brave, open and painfully honest A decades-long resident of a small Kansas prairie town, her openness, candor, and integrity come as naturally as the region’s unending flatland horizons. She names names, places and times with clarity; risking her own life as a frequent visitor and orphanage builder in this forlorn social setting.

Though the book’s primary motivation is chronicling  darkness, the light of life dominates. A Bruised Reed emphatically celebrates people – Swazi and outsiders – who care intensely, setting aside their own lives to rescue as many children as they can from a morass of varied physical abuses. The goal is not just to house, care for and heal them, but to demonstrate God’s love as he works through those who, in turn, love him.

It’s a good ‘reed,’ from start to finish, and we blindfolded Americans need the refresher course offered by Mrs. Spencer… reminding us that the battle between darkness and light still rages in full primal fury.

“A Bruised Reed,” produced by Grand Staff Publishing, is available through Amazon or through www.grandstaffministries.com. Books purchased through AmazonSmile to benefit the ministry. Direct donations are welcomed at GSM, P.O. Box 321, Buhler, KS 67522. Becky’s e-mail is becky@grandstaffministries.com

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Ron D. Mallett lives in Milliken, Colorado. He is a retired corporate communications executive who worked the past 18 years in volunteer Christian work, directing a jail and prison ministry and co-founding a helps ministry to the Tarahumara and Pima natives in central Sierra Madre regions of Mexico.

Jeff Thompson

In 1978 at the age of 21, Jeff moved to Vienna, Austria to smuggle bibles behind the Iron Curtain. His book, “Leaving The American Sector” available from www.mercyprojects.org chronicles many stories from that time period. He leads Mercy Projects in Murrieta, CA assisting vulnerable children and families in Ukraine, Kosovo, and Armenia. He enjoys espresso from around the world, and this gives him the energy to tell his grandchildren stories of being banned from Russia twice in his lifetime. Dan Wooding and Jeff have known each other for many years.

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