myWorld
More Alike Than We Are Different
February 4, 2019
by Mona Hodgson A leafy thatched roof overhead provides scarce shade. I sit cross-legged on a grass mat in an open hut where a dozen Burmese women and their children crouch around my sister Linda and me. Chickens cackle and flutter from under the rough-hewn flooring beneath us. Linda speaks in turn with our teenage translator, holding her Bible out to our spectators as a lifeguard would a rescue r…