Why?
"No, there are no murders in Africa. Only regrettable deaths, and from those deaths we derive the benefits of civillisation. Benefits we can afford so easily because those lifes where bought so cheaply."
[The Constant Gardener]
Hunger
I haven’t posted about Africa in a while. But it’s still on my heart. Trying to figure out where to go with it, what to do with it. You know, I learnt recently a new fact I didnt know. I’ve gone on about the diseases and the poverty, preventable things that are killing so many. But this hurts me even more.
More people die in Africa every day due to hunger, than disease and war combined.
How can that be?? I am convinced that there should never be starvation in a world of surplus. What can I do to help with these? How can so many people be dying from lack of food, when we throw so much out? What can I do??
Expand
So, I thought I should maybe expand upon that last post. About communicating. It’s true, you know.
On my last Exodus weekend (few weekends ago), we were talking about the problems/barriers we face when working with people around our ages, specifically discipling people.One of those barriers was the growth of ICT. Yes, it has brought many benefits. But strange as it seems to say it, it can also be a barrier to communication.
I haven’t been able to get that thought out of my head. It’s so true, even just looking at my own life I can see it. I’m not very good at talking about important things. It’s so much easier just to send a text/email/blog/instant messanger than actually to talk face to face. That can’t be good for us? To not be able to communicate wel, especially about the most important things. So what can we do to overcome it?
I’m working on that one…
What’s this now?
I don't know how to communicate well.
Dream
At church on Sunday the speaker talked about dreams. I like to dream. Here are a few of the main points that stick out in my mind:
Dreams fuel hope.
Dreams focus faith.
Dreams free others.
Dreams are multigenerational (they live on long after you die).
Everyone needs dreams. I have a lot of passions, but I’m not sure I have any fully-fledged dreams yet (aside from being a wife and a mum, but I think every little girl has that dream).
I have passions. I am passionate about God, about photography, about Africa, about New Zealand, about computers, about maths… yes, I have many passions. And I’m feeding them. I’m waiting to see what dreams develop. It’s exciting!
Do you/ Did you have dreams? What do you dream of? Go on, leave a comment!
I forgot!
Sunday was my one-year blogging birthday… and I forgot to post! Shame on me. So happy birthday blog. It is nice to be able to look back on the journey from time to time, to see where I have improved (and alas, where I have not).
So happy birthday blog!
For Lack of Words
(yes, I stole the title from dave)
Wait
“You are so young, so before all beginning, and i want to beg you… as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot e given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet
Beautiful (Disaster)
Oh well I don’t know
I don’t know what he’s after
But he’s so beautiful
Such a beautiful disaster
And if I could hold on
Through the tears and the laughter
Would it be beautiful?
Or just a beautiful disaster
Fine line between beautiful and beautiful disaster. So many questions. So many fears. So many memories.
Carry my cross
I find the journey hard, but it’s the reason I was born.
Recent Comments