How many years ago did the Lost Boys come here from Sudan... It seems forever ago what happened to them, in their country, to their families...Yet, these boys, these MEN are still here, still working, Every. Single. Day. Living every day with their history of true horror. Being asked to assimilate to OUR world. 
I watched a great documentary "GOD Grew Tired of Us" (I found it on Netflix). I was such a powerful reminder to me that America is not the only country in the world. That we have SO much to learn from SO many people. In the wake of the death of Osama-bin Laden, we find ourselves a little puffed up in the chest. We feel the pride in "closure" to 9-11. But we are so little and this act of "freedom" is such a tiny speck in it all. 
Where is our outrage when thousands of Sudanese families are murdered and newly orphaned boy march across a barren country to starve, to be torn up by lions and their hope (THEIR HOPE!) is that they will live crammed in dirt huts in a refuge camp with little food, and maybe an English education.
Where is our outrage when thousands of African and South East Asian people die every day of a preventable and manageable disease (AIDS) or when children from these countries and countless more are trafficked for sex slavery. Where is our collective American outrage when years after the Earth quake in Haiti, the country is still in ruin.
We forget so easily, we expect so much, we brush so much under the rug.
I wonder, if God is Growing Tired of Us....
1 comment:
Poignant...well said. We have been thinking in the wake of the killing of OBL that the air of celebration seems inappropriate. Relief is understandable...but celebration? Celebration just seems to reveal the depravity of the whole thing...that any of it even came to be to begin with so many years ago.
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