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March 31, 2004
Unspeakable Horror
It's been really busy here lately so I haven't posted much but I had some free time this morning so I thought I'd catch up on my news and stuff. I was not prepared to see this article: 9 Americans, including 4 civilians, killed in Iraq. Contractors' bodies mutilated, dragged through Fallujah's streets.
Unfortunately, I clicked on the photo and although it takes a lot to shock me, I was sickened at the site of the charred victim hanging from the bridge. Although, I don't know what sickened me more - the poor man who was mutilated or the sight of the young boys smiling and cheering. It was ironic to see the face of evil in what should have been an innocent child’s laughter. It reminds me of the movie The Passion when Satan is holding the ugly baby – distorting what is good into evil. I know these kinds of things are happening all over the world, every day, and it is very easy to allow despair to set in. Even now I am trying to type through my tears thinking, man, what the heck is going on?! Are we totally helpless to stop the world from spiraling downward?
Yet, that is exactly what the satan wants me to think - to be so disheartened and broken down that I can no longer fight. So I'll let the tears fall and then channel my anger into resolve to continue fighting and praying. Praying and sacrificing for the conversion of man's heart and fighting to bring Christ into the world in whatever means God provides me each and everyday. I will not let despair get the best of me. As dark as this battle may be, I know that our King and Savior has already tread the road before us.
Please continue to pray and sacrifice for our brothers and sisters enduring such evil and atrocities - as well as those committing them.
Posted by bobbi at March 31, 2004 8:15 AM
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