Please link to this post by Anne Jackson.
Please watch the video.
Please watch it, in its entirety.
Please watch it, in one sitting.
If you do, you will see the horrors of poverty, the resilient love of a child, and the hope that results when people respond to God's call to be grace givers. It is very hard to watch. But let me ask it again...please link to, and please watch this video in it's entirety. Our temptation when faced with this kind of truth is to back away from, and ignore it.
Even though I have asked God to grow me in the area of active compassion; I still want to run away and turn a blind eye to the vast need that is present in this world: this world that I live in, this world that I call my Father's world. Sadly there are times when I can't handle the truth, about the condition of the world. In fact there are times when I would rather not be aware of the truth. The ugly truth about my willingness to ignore a hard truth, is that took me three attempts to watch this video. I am not okay with that. I am not okay with the skill that I have developed that enables me to so easily turn a blind eye to truths that make me uncomfortable. So, today I start praying a new prayer over my life. I pray that God will make of me someone who will face the truth. Because as long as I continue to allow myself to live blind to these kinds of truths, I will never be the kind of grace giver that my Father would have me be.
PB
Please watch the video.
Please watch it, in its entirety.
Please watch it, in one sitting.
If you do, you will see the horrors of poverty, the resilient love of a child, and the hope that results when people respond to God's call to be grace givers. It is very hard to watch. But let me ask it again...please link to, and please watch this video in it's entirety. Our temptation when faced with this kind of truth is to back away from, and ignore it.
Even though I have asked God to grow me in the area of active compassion; I still want to run away and turn a blind eye to the vast need that is present in this world: this world that I live in, this world that I call my Father's world. Sadly there are times when I can't handle the truth, about the condition of the world. In fact there are times when I would rather not be aware of the truth. The ugly truth about my willingness to ignore a hard truth, is that took me three attempts to watch this video. I am not okay with that. I am not okay with the skill that I have developed that enables me to so easily turn a blind eye to truths that make me uncomfortable. So, today I start praying a new prayer over my life. I pray that God will make of me someone who will face the truth. Because as long as I continue to allow myself to live blind to these kinds of truths, I will never be the kind of grace giver that my Father would have me be.
PB
1 comment:
We have to do our part. I have to believe that we can make a difference.
But by the grace of God, this child could be Kyle... or Annabelle... how would that feel?
These are God's little ones.
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