Time to change

I had a bit of a ‘revelation’ or a ‘big change’ in my life two days ago.
Let me break it down.

I watched this movie called ‘Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ and it destroyed me. The end frame is a slow zooming out of way too many striped outfits the Jews were forced to wear while in the concentration camps, all left in an empty room because moments before, they all had died in a room with poison showers. They were innocent people who didn’t do anything, but were forced into short lives of hard labor, seperation from loved ones, and painful deaths. Of course I’m referring to the Holocaust. This isn’t the first time this kind of ‘revelation’ has happened for me, but this time around, I’m serious about doing something about the fact that there are 27 million people in slavery today. I’m serious about doing something about sex trafficking, child soldiers, abuse and all awful, terrible human deeds that exist in the world. My heart broke for all of those people who died in the Holocaust…the Pavol in the movie was someone’s grandfather…the little boy was someone’s son, someone’s brother…it just killed me. Terrible, terrible things happened in the Holocaust.

Here in North America, we are so blessed. Let’s kill the ignorance in our part of the world that because we’re fine and dandy, the rest of the world doesn’t exist or is just fine too. I plan on doing something about all the evil in the world today. The purpose of this post is to encourage you all to put into action all those ideas you’ve been thinking about doing to help out. DO IT. Afraid? Guys, our God is HUGE. He can deal with all of this. Let’s be lights in this world that has too much darkness in it. I’ll be honest here, I had a moment of total doubt at the end of that movie. I doubted that God cared about the world, I mean, there’s an overwhelming amount of badness out there. BUT, reading the Word, one can’t help but smile at how much God loves us…how much He loves this broken world, and how much He loves to fix us. Let’s go into the world, into our neighborhoods, into our schools and workplaces, and shine so much of God’s love and light that people can’t ignore it, or Him.

Some inspiration from Joan of Arc: “I am not afraid…I was born to do this.”

(My favorite organization is NotForSale, you can check them out here.)

allieinawe

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~ by allieinawe on June 29, 2010.