After a hiatus, I’m back to doing a once weekly list of links. It’s simple, I post the link, you click over or not. Read… if you dare. Warning: you may be feel emotions ranging from extreme anger to waves of sadness. Unless you’re heartless or dead. Do dead folk read blogs?
Libbie Loves: Pride and Prejudice to hope and freedom
Trafficking a money-maker: South Africa: News24
Rights groups say child sex abuse rampant in tourism industry
Plus more in my Google reader – click here to check it out.
Don’t read the stats. Don’t look at the images of starving children. Don’t read books like this.
Unless you want to mess with your head and heart and have your nice comfy worldview twisted around, shaken like a spiritual heartquake.
I’m telling you – don’t get involved with Compassion International because these little ones suck you in and you start loving people you’ve never met, caring about what happens to children with distended bellies and haunted eyes.
You chew on verses like “let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth,” and “Lord, when did we see you hungry… and did not help you?”, while you eat your nice London Broil and broccoli. When you scrape uneaten food into the garbage, you see the faces of children that search landfills searching for anything to eat.
Don’t love, don’t care and sure as heck don’t get angry at the apathy around you, because not everyone will be affected like you (lots of hard hearts surfing blogs too.)
Whatever you do – don’t pray for passion or for something to do with your little blog. Don’t ask to see folks like Jesus does.
Don’t give in to that desire to be part of hope. That’s what Global Food Crisis Day is all about, after all. Hope.
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Do you have hope? I do. Together we can rescue the hungry from what the UN World Food Programme calls “a silent tsunami.”
Donating to the Global Food Crisis Fund:
- Provides food vouchers to children and families needing immediate relief.
- Provides seeds and agricultural tools so that families can grow their own food as well as earn extra income.
- Provides supplemental nutrition services at Compassion-assisted centers around the world.
If you are reading this in RSS, you can follow the links above to donate or come over to Paper Bridges to use the little widget in the sidebar. It’s a very pretty widget, you may want one for your own blog too.
Let’s not lose hope in what we can do or turn away to ignore those Jesus wants us to serve in love.
So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.
Job 5:16
In a country with high unemployment and over 4 million school-age children unable to go to school, it is not difficult to understand how trafficking can thrive. The latest government estimates in 2004 put the number of children trafficked for prostitution at 21,000 for Java and 70,000 for the whole of Indonesia. But the ILO says this is just the tip of the iceberg as trafficking is notoriously difficult to track.
At least 70,000 Indonesian children trafficked for prostitution. This is beyond comprehension.
Read the rest of the article at IRIN.com.
(And I’m glad I didn’t listen to that little doubting voice in my head whispering, “Don’t post anything today. Nobody is interested.” I’m going to continue to speak out about for these kids, even if I do live on the other side of the world.)