Homeless children survive a frightening and unsure existence by - TopicsExpress



          

Homeless children survive a frightening and unsure existence by bonding with their own fables and stories. "What these determined children do is snatch dark and bright fragments of Halloween fables, TV news, and candy-colored Bible-story leaflets from street-corner preachers, and like birds building a nest from scraps, weave their own myths. The "secret stories" are carefully guarded knowledge, never shared with older siblings or parents for fear of being ridiculed -- or spanked for blasphemy. But their accounts of an exiled God who cannot or will not respond to human pleas as his angels wage war with Hell is, to shelter children, a plausible explanation for having no safe home, and one that engages them in an epic clash."
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:14:58 +0000

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