“When
did it come to this?
How
can there be so much injustice in the world?
How
can most the world be so blind to the horrific occurrences of
everyday life in the third world?
couldn’t hold back the tears as I listened to my former teammate
describe meeting people in Jos who had survived the attack. People
who watched loved ones be hacked to pieces with machetes. (I can
barely write this). People whose burns were still fresh. People
with slices in their body fom where the blows of the blade landed. A
mother who lost 10 children! Children who watched their parents die,
parents who watched their children die. Homes burned. People
slaughtered.
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I
watched little cheeko (as we called him), 5 years old, run joyfully
into the kitchen hut. A few moments pass when I suddenly hear a loud
SLAP followed by Cheeko’s wailing voice. The poor kid just wants
some love, and someone to approve of him, but instead he gets beat so
hard that it causes his head to bleed.
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I
watched as the young woman got tossed around by a circle of so-called
“pastors”. She was suffering from serious demonic oppression on
account of her involvement with a ‘sacred cult’, and these
unqualified men were using their own physical power to toss her to
the ground, in the name of Jesus.
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There
are entire villages of people with no access to clean water,
sometimes no access to water at all. People go without food, while
others eat themselves fat to prove themselves wealthy. In (parts of)
Africa, skinny isn’t exactly the latest fad, because it just means
you’re too poor to eat. Anyone with any money eats til their bellies
can testify to their wealth. Meanwhile their neighbors are dressing
themselves in baggy clothes to hide the fact that they are nothing
but skin and bones.
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Whichever
false prophet can shout the loudest, promising complete health wealth
and happiness, earns a right to the pulpit.
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Everywhere
we travel there is injustice all around. And lately when I think
about home, all I can think about is the 1 million+ babies we kill
every year. In America, you have a right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Unless your parents decide that you’d be too
much of an inconvenience, in which case, your warm slumber inside
your mothers womb is interrupted by a needle to the head, and your
right to life is taken.
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The
biggest tragedy is that my own self-centeredness renders me
ineffective to make any changes in this cruel world.”
(special
note about villages without water: we visited one village in Nigeria
called Lei-Lei, amazing place, amazing people, God’s peace rests
there, which is sweet because Lei-Lei means a place of rest. I felt
called to get them clean water. I don’t know how exactly that will
play out… basically I don’t necessarily feel called to physically
be the one getting them clean water, so much as I feel called to be
the one to get somebody involved… so who knows, maybe YOUR the one
to get clean water to Lei-Lei? (hopefully a blog coming soon about
that!)).
