God and the world...

"God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house.
God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives.
God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war.
God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives.
And God is with us if we are with them." - Bono

There is so much going on in the world around us, we here it on the news, from our friends, parents, teachers, ministers, government and we see it on TV, but we don't see all of it, and for the most part we don't feel it. There are unspeakable evils and pain that go on in the world around us, some are oblivious to it, some know it happens but try not to think about it, others go to do something about it. Firstly I'll point out that I am one of the people who knows bad things are going on in the world but try not to think about them, and I'm not one of those people who are willing to give there lives to help others, to leave there 'comfortable' lives to go and help people less fortunate thosands of miles away but I do admire people who can find the strength in themselves to do it. I'm losing my trail of thought already.. so I'll move on to a different topic.

God. I believe God is real. And I believe God can be found in the deepest darkest places of sorrow, pain and suffering, I believe that sometimes it is nessasary for people to fall and realise that they need God's help to get up. This is not to say that it is like this in all cases, the times where people have no choice in their circumstances, where babies are born into disease, it isn't God's will. It's our faliure. We do not treat everyone else as equals, we do not try to serve eachother, we let half the world fall into poverty and don't use the power we have to help. We spend money on weapons and war instead of building schools and hospitals. When will the suffering end? What can we do to end it? I suppose we could all sign up for a charity, and maybe give some money every now and then, but people have been giving money to charities for years and sure, it has helped, but has it solved the problem? We can all drop what we are doing a fly around the world helping people, but people have been doing that for years too, and sure that helps, but it doesn't fix the problem.

I don't really know where I'm going with this and I'd be suprised if you've read this far.. But here are my feelings. An olympic sprinter can't run with broken legs. A photographer can't take pictures with a broken camera. And a person cannot fix the world with a broken soul. There is only one who can repair a broken soul and that's Jesus, that's God, that's the Holy Spirit.

... stay tuned for more random ramblings of a travelling soul ...

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