School has
begun in our country, keeping many of us busy with all that the start of a
school year entails. Here a few lessons from real life that need to be highlighted
loudly while we go about the daily business in our own corners of the world.
Recently our President announced to the world that his administration does not yet have a plan for how to deal with the terrorist group ISIS. In few days since then, while he’s figuring out what to do, how many people in Iraq have been killed, slaughtered, massacred with brutality and relish by these terrorists? On August 6, 2014, nearly 1,000 people, Christians, were slaughtered in Gwoza, Nigeria by the militant terrorist group, Boko Haram.
Recently our President announced to the world that his administration does not yet have a plan for how to deal with the terrorist group ISIS. In few days since then, while he’s figuring out what to do, how many people in Iraq have been killed, slaughtered, massacred with brutality and relish by these terrorists? On August 6, 2014, nearly 1,000 people, Christians, were slaughtered in Gwoza, Nigeria by the militant terrorist group, Boko Haram.
And Iraq and Nigeria are not the only places in the world where dire circumstances envelope thousands (millions?) of innocent people--all caused by aggression and oppression by evil leaders.
Shouting here . . . these events call for a wise, collective, clarion response by the wider world community. Not silence. Not indifference. Not paralysis. Action. Now.
So the math lesson: One thousand is the story problem number for only a few weeks in the months of ISIS’s teaching the world how to count and relearn important words.
Here’s a reminder of how many 1,000 is. Each skinny, insignificant-looking, far-away-from-my world number represents a person made in the image of God and endowed with the right to life. But these lives have been cut off, their place on the world stage only a memory . . .
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The answer
to this math problem is 1,000.
The answer to how many people have been slaughtered by ISIS is "many more than this."
The real, human problem is that these are people, not obscure, identical numbers on a blog post. Each of these numbers represent a real person, infinitely unique, someone with hopes and dreams, laughter and tears, stories and family and much more.
What is the answer to stopping a representative story problem like this from even being written, or new ones being formulated in the coming days?
The real, human problem is that these are people, not obscure, identical numbers on a blog post. Each of these numbers represent a real person, infinitely unique, someone with hopes and dreams, laughter and tears, stories and family and much more.
What is the answer to stopping a representative story problem like this from even being written, or new ones being formulated in the coming days?
Words
associated with this math problem are taking grotesque shape and coming alive
right under the collective eyes of the world:
1. the systematic mass slaughter of European
Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (usually preceded by the).
2. any mass
slaughter or reckless destruction of life.
1. The
deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or
cultural group.
Evil:
Adjective
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
Noun
6. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
7. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
8. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
9. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.10. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.
11. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence: the evils of alcohol.
12. a disease, as king's evil.
Adverb
13. in an evil manner; badly; ill: It went evil with him.
Idioms
14. the evil one, the devil; Satan.
It all
tastes like gravel in one’s mouth, doesn’t it, to say these words and repeat
these numbers? Gravel-spit stories are occurring not just in Iraq, but in other places too--Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, across the
continent of Africa to name several others.
I pray to God that the destruction of innocent people will stop. Now, not later. Now as the result of strong and good leaders acting in incisive, deliberate, strong ways to silence the voice of aggression and evil.
I pray that our President would awake from his stupor and use the full weight and resources of the United States to come to the aid of these desperate people. We cannot stand idly by and say it's just not our problem.
May we as a free people remember the mantra’s of Auschwitz and Rwanda . . .
I pray to God that the destruction of innocent people will stop. Now, not later. Now as the result of strong and good leaders acting in incisive, deliberate, strong ways to silence the voice of aggression and evil.
I pray that our President would awake from his stupor and use the full weight and resources of the United States to come to the aid of these desperate people. We cannot stand idly by and say it's just not our problem.
May we as a free people remember the mantra’s of Auschwitz and Rwanda . . .
”Never Again.
What You Do Matters.”
What can you and I do? All Christians need to pray. Not just a brief little, "oh yeah, and please be with those who suffer" once a week.
What else? We all need to pray about that too, that God would give us wisdom to know what our part is.
I don't apologize for harping on this same subject in recent weeks, or being one who "focuses on negative things" or who "focuses too much on politics." I fear too many of us have been silent when we should have spoken up, whether to God or to our leaders, or to others we know, or family or friends.
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
What else? We all need to pray about that too, that God would give us wisdom to know what our part is.
I don't apologize for harping on this same subject in recent weeks, or being one who "focuses on negative things" or who "focuses too much on politics." I fear too many of us have been silent when we should have spoken up, whether to God or to our leaders, or to others we know, or family or friends.
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison.
Lord have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy.
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OTHER MUSIC LINKS
GoreckiSymphony No. 3 "Sorrowful Songs" - from "HOLOCAUST - A Music
Memorial Film from Auschwitz".
A movie based on a true story about a famous pianist who survives the Holocaust by hiding out in animal-like existence in the rubble for several years.
N E V E R A G A I N ?
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| The Roman Vishnaic Collection, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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| Refugees on Mount Sinjar in Iraq August 2014 |
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| Nigerian Girls Abducted by Terrorists in April 2014 - They have not been found as of this blogpost |
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| Steven Sotloff, American Journalist Killed by Terorrist Group ISIS, September 2014 |
August 28th was the anniversary of this slaughter in Ukraine in 1941. Today, this region of the world faces renewed threats to the people groups who live there.
Is there no hope? Is there no peace? Ultimately, yes in our Lord. In the meantime, hope and peace flourish in pockets here and there, and this is something we need to pray for and work for in all ways humanely possible.
May our Lord comfort those who have lost loved ones recently in all these cruel conflicts.
Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace
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