A Girl Called Samson
Amy Harmon
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“The one thing my mother gave me was my name. She made me proud of my name. She made me proud of what I came from and who I was. Yet I have spent so many years hiding from my name.” I rubbed my chest, battling the sentiment that surged there. “It was Deborah Samson who marched and bled and starved and served. Me. But Deborah Samson is still an object of scorn and speculation when anyone thinks of me at all. And I have allowed myself to be by staying silent.”
“Great miracles were wrought on their journey, but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.”
“But it is hope that will give you the desire to continue. You must resist it, that hopelessness. When God takes you, let Him take you. When He plucks you from this earthly coil, then you may rejoice. But as long as you draw breath, as long as your heart beats and the sun rises, you must stay in the fight.”
“had been steeped in revolution, indoctrinated with the language of liberty, and baptized in clear purpose. I knew, down to the soles of my feet and the depth of my spirit, that the fight was just and the cause was great.”
“but miracles do not make life easy. Most often, miracles just make the next step possible.”
“You start running and never stop. If I were you, that’s what I would do.”
“You know my ancestry.” “William Bradford, Myles Standish, John Alden,” he parroted dutifully. Our children had heard the stories too. I’d felt I owed it to my mother. “Yes. I wonder sometimes if William Bradford knows me the way I’ve always known him. I think he might. Every soul that has ever been born is a pinprick of light in an enormous net, and his light and mine are connected.”
“When God takes you, let Him take you. When He plucks you from this earthly coil, then you may rejoice. But as long as you draw breath, as long as your heart beats and the sun rises, you must stay in the fight.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,’” I began. He huffed under his breath, like I’d surprised him again, and I paused in my recitation. “You’ve memorized it?” he asked. “Yes, sir.” “Why?” “Because I believe in it.”
“There were many times in our season of death when I sat upon my hill, surveyed the bit of the world I was allowed to see, and pleaded for God to rein fate in. Fate was cruel, but I did not believe God was. But fate was not done, and God did not stop her.”
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