My heart breaks for Africa. I would so love to go there some day.Rebel armies. Unmindful killings. Massacres. Cruel deaths.
It is so sad. Is power really worth it? I sometimes wonder if the leaders of these rebels look at what is going on in front of their face and wonder if 'power' is worth it. I would love to just sit down and talk with a rebel army leader. I would love to hear his insight on life. His beliefs. His thoughts. His likes. His dislikes. There are many people I'd like to sit down with and have a conversation with. It is weird to think no matter how we sin, it is equal in God's eyes. Mass murdering and a lie is the same thing to God. It's hard for me to believe, but I believe it. It is written in black and white in the Bible. I wish some people in America and Japan and England and wealthier areas realized what luck they have to live the life they live. There are people, good people, struggling to live because of the decisions of others.
I remember a conversation I had in the car with my sister. She is a nurse who works at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. I told her that I don't know how she goes into work everyday knowing that she is going to see so many sick and messed up children. She told me that she doesn't know how I deal with people that don't want to live life anymore with And Then There Was Love.
I thought it was so weird because most of the people she is dealing with really want to live a healthy life and can't. And initially I thought the people that I deal with from ATTWL are at fault because they choose their own path. And, yeah, maybe that is the case initially, but at least they are doing something about it now. At least they want out. They want out just as bad as that cancerous kid in the hospital that my sister is treating and loving on. They want out just as bad as that mother from Africa who has to deal with the contant threat of death to her and her family for being a Christian. How brave. How brave of the African and how brave of the cancer patient and how brave of the depressed person. Bravery.
This is why I do And Then There Was Love. This is why I want to eventually do missions. To stick up for the brave who simply needs someone. Don't we all need someone?
Just a bunch of rambling... but I feel like my thoughts are a little bit more clear now...
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
I like the conversation you had with your sister.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to note the bravery and endurance experienced by those with addictions. So often it's easy to get caught up in the prejudice against addictions that we fail to notice the hope underlying the addictions, and how the addictions serve as an avenue with which to deal with life without taking the final plunge. These are just my thoughts, of course; you are more educated than me.
Speaking ATTWL, I am going to write out a five-paragraph biography for you today.