live love.

i had an interesting way of wrapping up my thanksgiving day.
watching the 2 hr. prequel to the upcoming season of 24.

(this part has nothing to do with my reason for posting this, but i have been a fan of 24 for a long time and last season was ridiculous and just not good. this prequel though was beyond superb in my mind. this upcoming season looks to be very very good again.)

back to the point.
in this prequel they are in africa and showing the civil war and how children are being kidnapped and brainwashed and turned into soldiers.
it got me thinking of how sad that is.
how broken our world is.
how screwed up it is.
then i began to think of some of the different groups out there like invisible children who try and bring awareness to these situations.

i was talking to my friend bryant about the show and about what’s going on there in africa and i remember he had done a project that involved talking a little bit about different organizations that desire to help the kids there and he went on to say there are lots of organizations out there helping them but even more to save trees.
i was taken back for a second and was just contemplating how true that is.
the news and media seems to spend so much more time talking about the environment than the lives of people.
i understand that we can’t magically fix everything and as much as we would love to help all the starving kids in africa we just can’t.
but the fact still bothers me that people in such a blessed country spend more time worrying about stupid trees than the lives of human beings.

what then becomes even more convicting to me is how often i complain.
i complain about so many stupid things.
i was having a conversation with my friend tracy about complaining and how rich we are compared to them and she said there are millions of kids would kill to be in our shoes here in america. to which i replied or even to just have shoes….even cheap shoes we would never think to buy for whatever reason.

i have so much.
and so much of this world has so little.
even more than the physical i have been blessed to have been told about my Savior.

my thoughts are scattered. incomplete.
my head is racing with too many thoughts.
i can’t comprehend it all at one time.
hopefully jotting down these few, brief thoughts weren’t a waste of time.

this world is definitely broken. evil. screwed up.
but we are called as Christians to be salt and light.
it makes me wonder how good of a job we are doing.
the name of the prequel was fittingly titled redemption.
God offers true redemption.

thanks Father.
i don’t know what else to say but thank You.
thank You for Your redemption.
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live love.
breathe surrender.
with reckless abandon.
hold nothing back.

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