Sisters in Shame

This morning over breakfast the hubs told me about a book coming out that may or may not affect the outcome of our current presidential election.  It's called Crisis of Character and is a first hand account of experience with the past  Clinton administration.  It contains previously unknown information about the scandal that rocked the nation.

No political commentary here.  If you want to know more get the book and form your own opinions.

Let's talk about Monica Lewinsky.  What do you think of when you hear her name?  I know.  It's ugly, disgusting, or even funny if you are warped.  Mostly it's sad.  Because a foolish young woman made a very common mistake young women sometimes make and she's living the rest of her life as the poster child for in-discrimination.  People still publicly snicker at her.

She's not the first woman in history to endure such.  King David had a wife like that.  Despite his making Bathsheba an honest woman by marrying her and their son even sitting her on a throne beside him, history STILL sees her as the woman on her back shaming a kingdom.  Ask most any preacher about her. The first thing he tells is not that she was an excellent wife, raised the wisest man in history or was the role model that Proverbs 31 was written about. No, he'll tell you that she helped bring a kingdom to its knees.  Never mind that God/Scripture/Nathan and David himself cleared her name.  She's still getting the Lewinsky treatment.

Never met Monica.  Know one person that saw her at a restaurant once.  But I like her. Why?  She's using her pain and her shame to help others.  Don't believe me?  Check out her Ted Talk.  This is not a person in hiding.  This is a person out there trying to do some good with what's left of her life.  This is something to be admired, and should she choose to trust Jesus (and I truly hope and pray so!) some day, like Bathsheba, I'll be able to tell her how much I respect and admire the person she became.