A Gut Ripper
posted November 11, 2008 by jordan
Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, north of Goma, eastern Congo on Thursday Nov. 6. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling Thursday as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda’s rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country’s east.
Just having arrived home from Vietnam and I am again made quickly aware of how oblivious we are to sufferings around the world. We talk about times being tough in America. Give me a stinkin’ break. I am sorry that our latte’s cost $4.50 now and that we’ll have to curtail a little Christmas shopping. We don’t have a clue as to suffering. God be with Protegee and thousands like her. Bring the American Church to her knees for her self-centeredness.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Oh man. This puts some stuff in perspective.
November 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Amen!
November 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Preach on!!!! I agree totally. God be with Protegee.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:47 am
I quietly sat and cried when I saw this. I have read a great deal about civil & religious wars in Africa. The picture speaks a thousand words but no picture can demonstrate what these people are living day after day. It is heart wrenching.
November 12th, 2008 at 5:15 am
That is so heartbreaking.
LORD Jesus come soon and relieve the suffering of the innocent ones.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Oh wow. I’m close to tears right now, and I just sent this link to a lot of my friends.
November 12th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
We still have it good compared to almost everybody that has ever lived in history. In the middle ages, not even kings slept on soft comfy mattresses, which most people that are not homeless sleep on in America. Noble families would sleep with the entire family in one room… most ordinary people have at least a couple of rooms in their house to sleep in nowadays. Most of them couldn’t even read the Bible either… not even kings.
I was reading a book the other day that said that in Weimar Republic Germany or somewhere like that there were people that were naked because they didn’t have clothes… I couldn’t imagine that. Clothes last an awful long time… some of the clothes that I wear are over 10 years old. I couldn’t imagine being without money to buy clothes for so long that they all wear out.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Thanks for the reminder.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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November 18th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
an update story from MSNBC and the photographer who took the picture
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27790850/