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I was meandering around in the blogosphere and decided to check out Divalocity. Oh man did I get hit with a brick. One of her post, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" had a picture of a 5 year old Haitian boy being weighed by a doctor.
The boy was emaciated.
That pictured bothered me all day. What am I doing towards helping those who could use some help?
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Miriam, multiply that sight a few million times.
As often as we conjure up those images and are overwhelm by them, our helplessness seem to overwhelm us more.
There are charitable organizations that seek to help the neediest around the world.
One of the my gifts to myself this year is to seek out one that is working to alleviate the suffering in that part of the world, and donate to the cause.
When I complete this comment, I will do just that.
But, as useful as the donation may be, it's merely a temporary measure.
We All need to get involved on the spiritual level to affect lasting change in that and other parts of the world.
I responded to you in my latest blog entry on The Secret Place with the following observations.
I believe that the comments I left there are still apropos:
I agree about our need for prayer. The world is desirous of change, but not always certain about how to bring it about.
Prayer is the answer, but because the problems are the result of our collective making, it will take the prayers of many to tip the scales.
The good news: It won't take the prayerful efforts of everyone. Comparatively, a handful can do it.
But a handful on a world-wide scale could still be in the millions.
Each day, I attempt to be part of the handful that is working to bring Heaven to Earth.
Thanks again for the reminder that we all can do more....
Prayer with action is necessary. It has to be a priority for us in the West to call on our govt's to correct the trade policies that have resulted in massive food shortages. I consider this one of the biggest wars of the US Gov't against another sovereign nation. They can't co-opt Haiti or take away the will of the people to be free from Neo-Colonialism so they take out the President and starve them to death - plus France with the debt too. if this was Darfur or Congo they'd be funding the "rebels" and allowing mass terrorism and rape to get to the resources. Unfortunately so many Black people in the US are on the fast track to nowhere we can't collectively pull it together to save ourselves let alone anybody else.
I am convinced that Black people of the Western hemisphere should put full focused energy into trying to save Haiti.
to ALL - Really, what would it take to get black folks to galvanize for a cause?
We can make a difference in the whole world.
Its people in brown countries who are dying of starvation and lack of medicine.
I'm thinking of the million man march and wondering how was that done, maybe there's a lesson there...
All over the world our people are the only ones suffering followed by the other indigenous people of the world.
Our family of the Diaspora are invisible in the America’s and virtually have no rights. We have an over abundance of every thing in the “Land of Plenty” and yet some of our people don’t even know how to survive and chose not to survive because they believe they are less than.
The effects of Slavery just don’t haunt the American descendent it affects our families who are living in South, Central America and the Caribbean too.
Even though they retained the vast majority of their African heritage during slavery and was able to pass it on, our ancestors were stripped of everything and the only thing seemed to be passed down was the spirit of defeat which is ingrained in the psyche of millions of our people who are still in chains mentally.
We can do more even if many of us don’t have the money to do so, all it takes is action. We have to stop talking about it and be about it. We could do a lot of things to enact change in policy in this country and the world.
Instead of saying we are in a box, many of us are in a cage, afraid to speak up for fear of retaliation or facing the unknown. If we want certain things in our lives we have to show it by our actions and deeds that these are the things we desire.
We can fight this evil that permeates our core and of this world, there can be compassion without compromise.
Our family in Haiti fought and died for their freedom from France and the US only to exercise that same freedom to choose self-imposed bondage again, this time at the hands of their own people with a little help from the same friends mentioned above.
Is it me or does anyone else see the disclosure of the truth that so many of us have turned our heads away from is being revealed by GOD for everyone to see?
Divalocity - I once saw a study that said that displaying forlorn images of famished children and flies and vultures buzzing around them usually invokes less charity money than showing positive pictures of people hard at work and self-improving.
I saw that survey when I was very young and not caring very much. Now I can't find evidence of that study and sincerely wonder why that isn't one of those studies that gets recycled in various version.
Then again, maybe I was mistaken...
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