In America, 100,000 children are forced into sexual slavery every year. See.
Over 1.4 billion people in the developing world live below the poverty line (U.S.$1.25 per day). See.
There were 75 children in a Haitian orphanage who were at risk of being trafficked. The signatures of thousands changed everything. See.
Amit Gupta needs a bone marrow transplant. See.
Relief and development projects in Africa can be funded for the cost of two mocha’s per month. See.
There are thousands of needs I could have listed here. I’m offering a few, but this list is feeble, really. I can’t tell you what to see. The children may sit small at your table, the co-workers may bristle at your talk of God, the mailman may come and go without a word, your teenage daughter may roll her eyes when you start asking questions. You may be haunted with images of hungry children across the world or across town, or you may be burdened with the hungry souls in your middle-class church. Still, there is hunger. Do you see it?
Anyone can look, and often everyone does. But only the world changers see.
So very glad that some world changers saw and signed that Haiti petition. Just got back from there in August.
Love the post.
I see it. Praying for wisdom and strength to turn my seeing into doing.
my eyes are open. it’s heartbreaking and calls for my action.
ps. today i wrote a “you better go buy this book NOW” review on Grace for the Good Girl. : )
I love how you’ve put this into words. There are certain things that my heart can’t stop seeing, and I’m continually asking the Lord to keep pointing me in the direction of action for His glory in these things!
Praising the Lord today for a community of precious, world-changing women who truly see!
These posts. They are incredible, meeting me exactly where I sit, clarifying thoughts I can’t shake. I’m beginning to see.
I see it. <3
I see, Emily. And sometimes I’m paralyzed in the seeing. I see so much but yet I feel so small. Like what I have wouldn’t make much of a difference. But I’m realizing that we all can make some difference, and when we all make some difference that is some huge difference to be made. Learning to give of what I have.
Your truth here gives me goose bumps.
mmm…honey to my soul today!
Praying for my eyes to be opened, to see what He see, to see through His eyes.
I love how you used the word “see”. That really sums it up. You can go through life and never truly see, but once your eyes are opened, you can never again close them. Or at least, that’s how it was for me. It took awhile, but once my eyes opened to suffering, to the difference that just once person could make, I had to take action.
This series that you are doing is amazing!
Thank you sweet friend. Thank you.
Love your heart Em, D
Love, love, love this!