i stayed silent until…

I stayed silent until I discovered the system wasn’t broken — it was intentionally made that way.
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I stayed silent until I recognized familiar symptoms on the vaccine insert.
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I stayed silent until discovering aborted babies were used (and abused).
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I stayed silent until [pro-life Christian] friends said — It doesn’t matter! Those babies were going to be aborted anyway!
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I stayed silent until [Christian] friends condescendingly declared that advocacy wasn’t important to Kingdom work.
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I stayed silent until I recalled the mom who slipped in church service late on the back row, leaving early, because her son was “interrupting” – clearly on the spectrum.
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I stayed silent until I realized the church needed to find her voice.
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And then I remembered… that voice was mine.
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Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which He looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which He blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are His body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. -Teresa of Ávila
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Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
– Matt. 25:40
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What were your “until” moments?

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