...out of mind
don't get me wrong, what happened on monday at VT was absolutely horrific and i never wish this kind of pain and weeping on any family, on any person. facebook has been plastered with groups for remembrance, vigils and prayer meetings have been held, people are hurting and people are responding to that pain. it's amazing to see the unity of this nation when something like this happens, it's a blessing i constantly take for granted. but there is a war going on, there are mass murders every day and yesterday 171 people perished instantly in baghdad by a car full of explosives parked in the center of an intersection. gone. never to see the light of day again. one person even reported seeing a severed head on the roof of a car after the explosion.
why are we not holding prayer meetings and candlelight vigils for them? why aren't we interceding more for them? would we differentiate our sorrow and mourning based on where a person lives or where they are born? let's not forget darfur. let's not forget uganda. china. north korea. venezuela. iraq.
i don't have all the answers, i don't know what to do. but when we let 171 perish without a second thought, without doing something about it, without having a prayer meeting for them, what does that say? are we going to let our ignorant flesh give a passing thought of sorrow then go on our merry way?
i'm not ignorant to what we are trying to do here; i just received a flyer for purchasing a 'stop the war' t-shirt on campus. people do care. i just don't understand why we pay so much attention to stateside issues compared to what is going on across the pond. i just don't understand human nature.
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