This morning on the way to work I saw a new poster of a woman with a child in her arms in the middle of a war zone, with the title: “The greatest crime: forgetfulness.”
Over 3.5 million children die unnecessarily every year (that’s a city the size of Berlin). And right now, so many children and their families are being killed daily in Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, Cameroon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Niger, Chad – to name some of those that I am aware of.
I feel so challenged. What am I doing about this? Why are Europe and the USA so unbelievably powerless to help? Where is the church? Where is God?
Humanly speaking, our selfishness must lie somewhere at the root of the answer. I know that if it were my son depicted in the image below, I would drop everything and do all that I could to stop this from happening. If these atrocities were happening in our country, we would have to do something. But we are too far removed. We seem to have become numb to the images, as if they were scenes from a fictitious movie rather than real life. We forget.
Tony Robbins wrote: “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”
I don’t know about you, but I have made my mind up to spend my remaining years on this beautiful planet helping to bring healing, peace and reconciliation.
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