Yes, reading Sara Miles' Take This Bread, and quite taken. I'm on page 6.
Margaret (Sara's paternal grandmother, a missionary in Burma in the mid-1920's) wrote:
"The problems of our little Shan church seem delicate and difficult, and our responsibility is very great, for the Shans still lean dangerously upon the missionaries. We hear ourselves constantly mentioned in their prayers - the three 'mamas' and the great teacher who have come so far to help them - come from the wonderful country of America, a sort of earthly paradise where everyone is wealthy, and everyone is happy, and everyone is good. Would you feel flattered in our places, or would you feel deeply humiliated, as we do?"
I feel you, Margaret. Deeply.
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