injustice
I have such a happy life, even bad days are like a pleasure cruise to so many.
I sometimes read John McCollum's blog: http://earstothetrack.blogspot.com/ He often has links to articles relating to different atrocities happening across the world. One of the articles he linked to (I believe it was about Darfur) mentioned that women and children, but especially children, are absolutely the most attacked people group. I had never considered this before, I had always thought about it in terms of nationalities. But, really in almost any culture including the United States, the people who are unable to defend themselves the least, are persecuted the most greatly, i.e. children. Often times, like in the article in this blog about sex-slavery in Cambodia, even the parents, who are supposed to love and protect their families, end up selling their children for money. It really makes most of the things I get riled up about in my own life seem as silly as when Graham cries because he can't have more "teetah"
I have to be careful not to obsess about all of these issues: the Iraq war, how the heck it's going to ever end, Bird flu, Child Soldiers in Darfur and Uganda, Sex-Slavery in Cambodia, Child predators that could be my neighbors . . . I could go on and on. And the thing that haunts me as I try to hard not to obsess (because I can let myself get completely worked up), is how wrong it feels to turn your face away, and how impossible the solutions seem, and how awful it would be to become one of the opressed.
If you are interested, in some of the articles I've been reading, the organization World Vision seems to be doing some "real" things to solve the problem. It's the place to which Ryan and I have been tithing. http://www.worldvision.org Also, if you'd like to buy a dog tag to support "the name campaign" (a organization I know little of, but was sent as a link through Daily Candy) you can check this site out. http://www.creativevisions.org/name/
Just FYI.
Also, I'm sorry that I haven't figured out how to link in a post, I'm sure that would be simpler for you to look up the sites I mentioned. I'll work on that.
I sometimes read John McCollum's blog: http://earstothetrack.blogspot.com/ He often has links to articles relating to different atrocities happening across the world. One of the articles he linked to (I believe it was about Darfur) mentioned that women and children, but especially children, are absolutely the most attacked people group. I had never considered this before, I had always thought about it in terms of nationalities. But, really in almost any culture including the United States, the people who are unable to defend themselves the least, are persecuted the most greatly, i.e. children. Often times, like in the article in this blog about sex-slavery in Cambodia, even the parents, who are supposed to love and protect their families, end up selling their children for money. It really makes most of the things I get riled up about in my own life seem as silly as when Graham cries because he can't have more "teetah"
I have to be careful not to obsess about all of these issues: the Iraq war, how the heck it's going to ever end, Bird flu, Child Soldiers in Darfur and Uganda, Sex-Slavery in Cambodia, Child predators that could be my neighbors . . . I could go on and on. And the thing that haunts me as I try to hard not to obsess (because I can let myself get completely worked up), is how wrong it feels to turn your face away, and how impossible the solutions seem, and how awful it would be to become one of the opressed.
If you are interested, in some of the articles I've been reading, the organization World Vision seems to be doing some "real" things to solve the problem. It's the place to which Ryan and I have been tithing. http://www.worldvision.org Also, if you'd like to buy a dog tag to support "the name campaign" (a organization I know little of, but was sent as a link through Daily Candy) you can check this site out. http://www.creativevisions.org/name/
Just FYI.
Also, I'm sorry that I haven't figured out how to link in a post, I'm sure that would be simpler for you to look up the sites I mentioned. I'll work on that.
posted by shannon | 9:31 AM
1 Comments:
That is cool that you read John's blog. It is pretty unbelivable to think of all that tragic lives around the world, catastrophic events.... possible outbreaks... but i guess that is when we just have to lay it down. So hard to know how to react.
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