Heroes of the faith, oh, we all know the likes of Abraham, Samuel, Isaiah, Paul... People appointed by God. People tasked with something BIG. People who faced him saying, “OK, here I am.” And through them God does something big. We’ve seen them memorialised in marble. But in this series, let’s rehearse some faith stories of ‘the little people’. Because surely, you’ve wondered about them. The handicapped, the beggar, the bedridden, the carer, the housebound, the outsider, the refugee, the depressed, the spouse, the sibling, the prisoner, the prostitute, the infant, the child, the shift worker, the cleaner. And in looking at these people, we see that...it matters that you and I are here too.
Author: Sarah Raiter
Sarah Raiter is a wife, mum, grandmother, author, and artist. She grew up Pakistan, and went back there with her husband and children. You'll now find Sarah empty-nesting at St James Old Cathedral where Mike and she live and worship. Through art and words, Sarah "creates for the sheer joy of it, the discipline of it, the compulsion of it… and the kinship through it. I create, as I pray with all my life, that there might be glimpses of refracted truth and glory." For more of her work, see https://containingcolor.wordpress.com