FROM SARAH THEBARGE:
"A while ago, a horrible thing happened to me. Someone I trusted used, abused and violated my personhood, while I was undergoing chemo in a life-threatening fight with breast cancer.
"It took me years to get over it. Years of tears. Countless questions. And hours upon hours of quality therapy.
"I kept asking my therapist how I could get past it. How I could move forward when it was impossible to go back and change the past. How I could live with a terrible stain that could never be erased. How I could live in a world where such injustice was possible...tolerated, even.
"And in those words I found the peace, the forgiveness, the strength I needed to move forward.
"I forgave because I think the world needs more forgiveness.
"I befriended a refugee family because I think that marginalized, invisible people need to be seen with love and dignity.
"I started a college fund for these five little Somali sisters, and I’ve willed my house to them, because I think the world needs more engaged, intelligent, powerful women to lead it...
"I practice medicine in the U.S. and in developing countries around the world because I think the world needs as many compassionate healers as it can get...
"I don’t do it perfectly, but I try to do it well: I try to vote with my life for the way I think the world should be.
"With every single thing we do, every single day, we can cast a vote for the way the world should be.
"We can vote for Love.
"We can vote for Compassion.
"We can vote for Forgiveness.
"We can vote for everyone’s voice to be heard.
"We can vote for women who have been discriminated against.
"We can vote for people of color who have been oppressed.
"We can vote for refugees and immigrants to be welcomed as our guests.
"We can vote for justice to be served...
Read the rest of Sarah Thebardge's inspiring, encouraging article at:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/sarahthebarge/2018/11/vote-with-your-ballot-then-vote-with-your-life/
"She studied Medical Science at Yale School of Medicine, and Journalism at Columbia School of Journalism.
"Sarah has practiced international medicine extensively, volunteering in Togo, West Africa, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. Her next book, WELL, about three months she practiced medicine in Togo, launched in November 2017.
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