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You breathed life into me; I want you to know

You breathed life into me; I want you to know

In his book, The Wisdom of Tenderness, Brennan Manning, tells how he, with countless others, has been touched by the play The Man of La Mancha, based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote. The most touching part of the play is how the wanton woman, Aldonza, is ultimately transformed by Don Quixote’s re-awakening her dignity, worth and purpose, even imparting to her a new name: Dulcinea (Little Sweet One). And at the end of the play, it is Dulcinea who brings Don Quixote back from the shades of death by rekindling in his heart his dream of grace and glory and quest for honor. Brennan then shares a story of his own sufferings, and of the man he calls his Man of La Mancha.

Things to think about

Things to think about

We were blessed to live in the San Francisco Bay area for five years for what seems like a million years ago. I rode the train every day like all the commuters, and I worked downtown in the financial district. San Francisco has the oldest Chinatown in our country and is the largest Chinese community outside of Asia. Needless to say, I got to work with some great Chinese people, some great Asian-Americans. One very young Chinese man named Ming Yang would come to the office with a little metal lunch pail. Sometimes I would ask him what his mother had made him for lunch, and he would literally take his chopsticks (no kidding) and explore the container holding his food. After moving the pieces around, looking under and in between he would then explain to me what he was about to eat. He always had white rice, not the fried stuff we get at the local Chinese place with peas and carrots adding a touch of bright color. That very plain rice was always surrounded by some bony pieces of meat. Ming would tell me in his best broken English that he thought it was pork, maybe chicken, and then again maybe fish.

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