By noon, Freetown is fully activated.
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As the day goes on, the city bids you into her streets and Freetown becomes even more busy, frantic with crowds of people scurrying to find a way to provide for themselves and their families.
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People are rushing to do what they do...
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for some it is selling their goods...
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for others its providing a service for their country or ...
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maybe it is buying fresh vegetables at the street markets...
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or maybe its selling the fruits of your labor....
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Whatever you do, the streets are alive!
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Young and old are out and about... rush here, rush there
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like in the West, this city is very much awake, busy and activated ....
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But unlike in the West, In Freetown you can spot those quietly blended into the mass of society
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being still...
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Openly and publicly listening to that "still quiet voice", they stop their attention to the worldly laptop lifestyles...
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and consider the words of Psalm 46:10:
"Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."
Uninhibited and in plain sight on the streets, they pray!
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As others whisk by, they bow in submission to God. It is time for prayer, a time for the city life to blend into God's life...
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Its all here, everything you can think of, its all blended into one heap of humanity in Freetown. Hustling, prayer, desperation, satisfaction -paradox after paradox, this is what makes up Freetown.