Dominique Strauss-Kahn and God’s Rivers in the Desert

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The Dominque Strauss-Kahn case confirms what I already knew:  the waters of justice rarely flow freely for victims of violence. “I am about to do a new thing… do you not perceive it…I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”  ~from Isaiah 43 The news that the rape case against Dominque Strauss-Kahn will be dropped comes as no surprise to me.   As a rape survivor I was not optimistic that such an affluent and influential man would come to justice.  Even when I heard that other women were coming forward to tell of violent sexual encounters with… Read the full post

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Look Up “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers,  they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you… Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now its springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”     –Isaiah 43:1b-2,… Read the full post