Stephen Ministries – The Intercom, June 2019

However, not everyone will greet June with joy: life’s problems don’t honor the seasons. This summer, some adults will find it difficult to emerge and unbundle. And sadly, some kids in our city will struggle to bloom.

In Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, the author Jonathan Kozol shared what he learned from young children attending inner-city schools in New York City. Children like Stephanie. When Kozol asked Stephanie what might make the world a better place, she replied, “What would make the world better is God’s heart. I know God’s heart is already in the world. But I would like if he would …push the heart more into it. Not just halfway. Push it more!”