ILLUMINATION OF ABSOLUTION
Mere Christianity. I’m sure you’ve either read it or have a friend who has. Yeah, that C.S. Lewis guy wrote it. You know, the one created The Chronicles of Narnia, but don’t get confused, this book isn’t about fauns or talking beavers. It’s about the raw essentials that illustrate God’s existence and the book is blowing my mind. Literally, my brain cells are dropping like flies.
A plus RV’s equals Responsibilities
The sky shed a few tears as I waited for the hovering darkness to pass. Tonight, I was going to be in community with an old friend and her family. A family made up of twenty-two children, a husband and two wives. Yes, two wives. I can still remember my first reaction to polygamy in Uganda so clearly. “What, you have four wives? No wonder you’re HIV positive.” However, tonight projected a different reaction. My tune was understanding and complimentary to the tune of Acholi culture.
BURDEN
Bombardment of statistics, propaganda and peoples opinions is overwhelming and burdensome. We’re in the midst of choices clouded by self and sin. Choices that try to define our fallen existence and wage war on our quest through life for truth. We’ve all asked ourselves “what is truth?” The truth is that we are in a fallen world, filled with fallen people and we fall. We make mistakes. We turn right instead of left and then deal with the consequences of what we think shouldn’t be. Then comes guilt. Shame. Loneliness. And depression.
- Twenty percent of people in the world live on one dollar a day.
- Another 20 percent live on two dollars a day.
- Twenty percent of us live on more than seventy dollars a day.
- More than two billion children live in our world, half in poverty.
- One out of every four children in the world has to work instead of going to school.
- Eight percent of people in the world own a car.
- Over one billion people have unsafe drinking water.
- A child dies of hunger every sixteen seconds.
Overwhelming? You bet. What do we do with this burden?
HOW IC IN UGANDA
Today I received an email from my friend and supervisor in the States. It's pretty exciting stuff and I wanted to share it with all of you. Thanks to those who've signed up for donating to Invisible Children through TRI (reoccuring monthly donations). It's because of these donations that we're able to support the below.
PS This email was sent to the Invisible Children staff. You're in the know. Sweet.