Category: Spirituality
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What is in Your Alabaster Box
Alabaster was very expensive in Bible times, and if a person bought an alabaster box, it was only used for very important purposes. In the days Jesus was on earth, when a young woman reached the age of availability for marriage, her family would purchase an alabaster box for her and fill it with precious…
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What happened to the little Girl?
Kevin Carter’s winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993.In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child. The incredibly powerful image graphically illustrated the terrible plight of those inflicted by desperate poverty. Even…