Topics:<\/b> Kindness; Power; Retribution; Revenge<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/b> Luke 11:30\u201337<\/p>\n
Lewis and Clark\u2019s famous expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1804 almost came to an untimely and deadly end. Half starved and almost frozen, the men staggered out of Idaho\u2019s snowy Bitterroot Mountains into the camp of the Nez Perce Indians.<\/p>\n
A chief named Twisted Hair had to decide what to do with the weak but wealthy strangers suddenly in their midst. According to the tribe\u2019s oral tradition, some of the Nez Perce proposed killing the white men and confiscating their boxes of manufactured goods and weapons. The expedition\u2019s rifles and ammunition would have instantly made the Nez Perce the region\u2019s richest and most powerful tribe.<\/p>\n
But an Indian woman came to the aid of the white men. As a young girl, she had been captured by an enemy tribe on the plains, who in turn sold her to another tribe. Eventually she was befriended and treated kindly by white people in Canada before escaping and making her way back to her own people. They called her Watkuweis, \u201cReturned from a Faraway Country,\u201d and for years she told them stories about the fair-skinned people who lived toward the rising sun. She was aged and dying by the time the explorers arrived.<\/p>\n
When she learned about plans to destroy the expedition, this woman intervened. \u201cThese are the people who helped me,\u201d she said. \u201cDo them no hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
A little kindness can have amazing and unexpected results.<\/p>\n
\u2014Marshall Shelley, Wheaton, Illinois<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Kindness; Power; Retribution; Revenge Reference: Luke 11:30\u201337 Lewis and Clark\u2019s famous expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1804 almost came to an untimely and deadly end. Half starved and almost frozen, the men staggered out of Idaho\u2019s snowy Bitterroot Mountains into the camp of the Nez Perce Indians. A chief named Twisted Hair had … Continue reading “REPAYING
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