My wife is the Children’s Librarian at our local library.
Yesterday, being Leap Day, for one of her book groups she had the children respond to questions about what they like today and what they think they will be doing four years from now when there is another Leap Day. One of the sections was about school and included a question about what foreign language they might be studying.
And, here is the sign of hope…
One of the children asked if it was okay to list French as a foreign language because he knew people who spoke French and so it didn’t seem foreign to him. Picking up on the question, another child asked about Spanish because he knew many people who spoke Spanish.
Maybe their questions provide a hopeful snapshot of our world 10 years from now or 20 years from now. A world where there will not be foreign languages only different languages. And, a world where there won’t be foreigners only neighbors who speak a different language.
May it be so, O God.
May it be so.
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