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Address Evil.

Address Evil.

Last updated on: June 24, 2010 at 11:03 am by Grace Sandra

Address Evil. 2010-06-24T11:03:47-04:00 Grace Sandra

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darfur-in-activism-2-scream-copy The genocide in Darfur is deteriorating. As, I looked at my 8 month old this morning I felt heavy-hearted as I considered what it would be like to not be able to feed him.

I’m in awe of the women who love their kids so much but have to watch them starve. These women have relocated to displacement camps but still live with the constant threat of rape.

The situation there is awful, and I admit even my prayers seem like useless act of service amidst such great distress.

My challenge for us today is to take a few small steps toward being part of the solution.

Why?

~People are suffering tremendously and they need our help. I get ancy when I have some small & insignificant problem and people won’t help. I can’t imagine what the suffering & dying are wondering about why the world has continued to allow this to happen for 7+ years. (If it were up to me I promise you I would have Sudan’s tyrant of a President killed on the spot though I know that would only address half the problem).

~God asks us to love the poor & the orphan. Over & over & over again.

~What we will tell our kids 20 years from now that we did to help stop one of the greatest global humanitarian crisis’ of our time? Will we say we “tried not to get involved in things like that?” If we do, shame on us.

Start SIMPLE.

~Visit Save Darfur’s Take Action page. ( The Save Darfur Coalition is a trusted advocacy group calling for international intervention. It’s a coalition of more than 180 religious, political, and human rights organizations designed to campaign for a response to the atrocities of the War in Darfur).

~watch

~give

~pray…

Lord, in the matter of Darfur, help me to be

concerned without cynicism

involved without fear

speak without rancor

pray without ceasing

live without complicity

so that with my brothers and sisters in Darfur we may

live with hope

act with confidence

speak truth with strength

and become your loving presence on this earth.

Deliver us from evil.

Amen

-a prayer from the Covenant Community Church

“Genocide does not belong to one Nation, it belongs to all Nations”. – Anonymous

“Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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