Forgotten

With an anguished heart, I sit and think about the many missing girls and women around the world. I started thinking about the kidnapped Nigerian girls and my thoughts spiraled to sex trafficking. I wonder if we, the human race are not responsible fundamentally. Have we been attentive enough? Have we allowed these females to disappear? Where is the respect for basic Human life?

I think it can only be allowed if someone – a wife, mother, sibling, friend, stranger turns a blind eye to the offenders! Maybe we are too afraid. We assume someone else will do it. We don’t know where to turn. Maybe we ignore it because we actually benefit from someone else’s pain. Heaven help us if this last statement is true! I do know this -EVERYTHING done in the dark will eventually come to light!

This is a call to a greater humanity; a call to live with our hearts. If you see someone with your heart, you cannot ignore them because the reality is…you are looking at yourself.

Cacophony

Cacophony can only be used to describe the events of late.  I do know that cacophony is a discordant mix of sounds, but I am using it to describe the continued discordant mix of events around the world. My eyes see, my ears hear, and my heart hurts for the…

-continued turmoil and unrest around the world

-senseless abuse and death of our children

-religious persecution

-lengthening list of natural and unnatural disasters and events

-ignorance to mental illness and depression

Where is the love for one another? Can we really turn our backs and pretend not to see? I can’t.

“…And the greatest of these is love.” J.C.

 

 

 

A Moment in Time

 

 

I was just watching television.  A celebrity was talking about how she was in awe of the Queen of England to the point that she was mildly freaked out.  That got me to thinking about a conversation that I had with one of my sisters not too long ago.  She was upset because she realized that her chances of marrying a royal prince were less than 10%.  She would not be Cinderella (mind you, Cinderella is a fairy tale).  She does not travel in royal circles.  She does not meet “the world’s definition of beauty” (in her mind because I think she is one of the prettiest people I know – petite, great hair, skin, good heart, and she can make you laugh).  It didn’t matter how much I tried to encourage her, she was having “A moment”.  She had started to define her self by the world’s standards (which are pretty poor).

I am blogging about this because I want you to know  that the Creator does not subscribe to the world’s standards. He does not care about how much money you have, how you look, how thin you are, where you live, or the clothes you wear.  He loves you because He created you and everything that He makes is beautiful.  For everyone who is currently having “A moment”; in the Creator’s eyes, you are Royalty and you are Beautiful. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do once you put your mind to it and believe that it can be done.  He wants you to have His joy and His peace.

Focus on the Creator and be encouraged because you are His Royalty.  Be YOU, Be BEAUTIFUL!

 

The Song in my Heart

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/world/europe/pope-francis-washes-feet-of-disabled-people/index.html?iref=allsearch

When I heard this story in the news, my heart sang.  There is something so fundamentally true about this simple act.  The Pope stepping out of expectations and becoming a servant to others…washing feet.

We can all take a lesson from this man.  Would you do the same?