Jesus Life 87 - Jesus Army
Jesus Life 87 - Jesus Army
Jesus Life 87 - Jesus Army
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<strong>Jesus</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
Anna Hartley<br />
BULLYING<br />
I<br />
’LL TELL you what makes me<br />
angry, what makes me really<br />
angry. Seeing children at school<br />
get bullied, for no reason. For<br />
the colour of their hair, the colour<br />
of their skin or eyes, for freckles, for<br />
their size and shape, because they’re<br />
clever, or because they’re not, or the clothes<br />
they’re wearing that day. It doesn’t seem to<br />
matter what the reason is, they’ll find one.<br />
They may wait unexpectedly outside the gates<br />
after school and chase you home, they may laugh<br />
at you in class for good achievement, and they<br />
may dunk you under water in the swimming pool<br />
lesson or trip you up in the school playground.<br />
This is the kind of endless taunting children have,<br />
do and unfortunately will experience.<br />
All these things and many more can truly<br />
cripple a person for life and their self-worth goes<br />
out of the window, making them feel insecure,<br />
unworthy, intimidated, crushed, and lacking in<br />
confidence.<br />
But, through the grace, love and healing power<br />
of God, people are completely set free, and<br />
through the spiritual family that you can find in<br />
church, that sense of self-worth is restored.<br />
All these things<br />
and many more<br />
can truly cripple<br />
a person for life<br />
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