Sentinel Watch April 14, 2014 Issue

Protection for our sisters

Diane Williamson

One night a few years ago, I heard a news report about the decision to stone a Somali woman to death because she’d had a child with a man who apparently had promised to marry her but then changed his mind. Sharia law in her area decreed her death when the child was weaned.

This news deeply upset me. Despite my efforts to think spiritually about it in order to claim God’s presence and power right there in the situation and to help the woman, I wasn’t able to calm my anxious feelings. As I tried to sleep that night, I asked God to give me a thought that could help her—and alleviate my own distress about this and so many other injustices in the world. I wanted to be unimpressed by the so-called “power” of evil.

No ideas came, and I went to sleep. Then, quite suddenly at three o’clock in the morning, I sat up in bed, wide awake, and in my thoughts came these words very strongly. I immediately wrote them down:

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