justina

...justina she was the mischievous one with her mass of black hair and this was her interpreter teaching her that word she said the most described her it is hard to imagine so cheerful a woman hiding in a gully at the riverbank after coming three days with the wounded three days through the rain forest and then the helicopters searching them out with machine guns six-barreled that could level an illinois cornfield in one pass but justina did survive this friend of rigoberta menchu her people were the usual communists as the reports would have it but in truth they were a people native to the foot of the cross and their land was too valuable all that they had ever held as their own and how did it happen the helicopters came to the rivers of guatemala and who was it that sent them there but I want to move along come to the business of the prayers yes and they always have to be prayers against the self as I know but justina was firm about this telling us that when you pray put your candle in the center and the light will be everywhere John Knoepfle Commonweal 1 8 February 26,1999...