A few months ago, I suggested in this post that the 'golden door' * that Lady Liberty spoke of opens into the West Texas community of Midland. I was referring, briefly, to this post at West Texas Missioner, about a small-but-growing community of refugees from Burma/Myanmar, right here in the Tall City. An oppressed people, they have been allowed to emigrate from refugee camps in Asia, to the United States, where they are now making new homes and new lives for themselves.
Now comes Sunday's reports from the MRT's Audrie Palmer, "From Myanmar to Midland," which provides a more detailed look at these people, the incidents that drove them from their country, and they welcome they are receiving in our country.
● They wanted a better life — a free life — and they got it
● Touched by refugees' plight, one Midland woman does what she can
● Midland schools get creative in effort to educate Myanmar students
Recommended reading, all of them ... highly recommended.
* The "Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World" was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy.At the base of the statue is a appears on a plaque with the poem, “The New Colossus,” by poet Emma Lazarus. “The New Colossus,” delivered in the voice of Lady Liberty herself:Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:I lift my lamp beside the golden door." Read Missioner's post, and the stories linked above, to find out how this applies to a community-within-a-community, here in the Tall City.
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