The Rev. David Jones is senior pastor of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA.
In a novel entitled One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of a small town in South America. The name of the town was Macondo, and it was surrounded by a swamp, which accounted for its solitude.
One day a little girl wandered into Macondo. She was fleeing her village, where there had been an outbreak of a plague that caused insomnia. A family in Macondo took her in and later noticed that one of their daughters couldn't sleep. The plague had followed the little girl to Macondo.
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