We took a train.
Sometimes it’s the simplest times, the most unexpected moments that God
will lay something on my heart. He
will break my heart for what breaks his.
We had a crazy travel from Prague to Moldova. It was something like 32 hours, 4 trains, 3 layovers. At the end of it, when we crossed the
Moldova boarder, I got hit…hard. I
found myself in the middle of the second fight that day. This man who worked for the boarder
came up to this woman I was sitting with and started yelling at her. I had no idea what he was saying but
afterward she started crying. The
only word that came to mind was injustice. Injustice.
Injustice. Since arriving
in Eastern Europe, I have seen first hand more injustice and prejudice than I
have ever seen in my life. It’s
Gypsies vs Romanians vs Hungarians vs Moldavians. And this woman, this beautiful woman was brought down to a
pea size.
Here is my question…
why. Why is it so
important to be better than the next person? My mind started racing as I was weeping for this woman
sitting across from me. We are
killing each other. Literally and
emotionally. It’s the words that
come out of our mouths or the actions towards one another. I have lost dear friends and had my
heart broken because of this. What
is this I keep hearing about nuclear war? Have you ever stopped to think about what we are doing
to each other? What is your
purpose, what is your motive?
I met this man from Cameroon on the streets of Prague and
had one of the most amazing conversations. He was bold. He
was a dreamer. He said why should
I blame you for something your fathers’ fathers’ fathers did to my fathers’
fathers’ fathers? He also said why
do we need passports? This is one
land; this is God’s land. We have
so much hate in our hearts because of lines drawn on the same land. I could go into so much more dealing
with generational stuff but my point is we don’t have to live in the past. The hate we have in our hearts, that is
not ours. We don’t have to live in
that. He believed in the idea of
world peace.
These are bold statements, but why not be bold. I watched the movie The Green Zone the
other day. There was a man in
Roy’s group who just wanted to do what he was told. Didn’t care about the reason. He wanted to do his job and go home. Roy had bigger dreams. Roy was bold. We can go through our lives with the hate in our hearts. Not caring the reason it’s there, not
caring to get rid of it. Or… we could live as God has called us to
live. With love in our
hearts. Love for the people around
us… ALL the people. It takes work
to get the hate and bitterness out but it’s possible. Can you imagine a world where we actually love one another? I can. That is why my heart breaks. It’s possible.
