Our production of articles has been a little lackluster the past week or so because we were in midterms and are now taking some greatly needed rest. But the whole concept of a Spring Break got me thinking this very important question “If you could go anywhere and do anything for a week, what would you do?” (And bear in mind there is a G-Rating for this thread)
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Go to Darfur.
And end the genocide.
Wait… G-Rating? I don’t remember agreeing to that… Where’s the fun in that? ;-P
Before NorEaster’s comment, it would have been a bit of a pilgrimage through Israel and Greece, but now I’d feel guilty.
Aside from that, I’d go to Iraq and hang out with soldiers there. They could sure use a spring break.
Well, yeah. You guys took more of a serious turn. I was thinking I would go to the moon. Seriously, only like twelve guys can say they’ve done that.
“…a more serious turn”?
Well, I knew THAT was coming.
A single rose blooms today and dies tomorrow. But it is still the most beautiful, and most represented, flower in the history of art. And yet, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed as gloriously as a single rose. (Or a lily, to use the exact example.) So how much more glorious will The Presence of God be when see Him face to face? From that point of view, Why bother with something so mundane as walking on the moon?
Whoa, NorEaster, you’re heavy!
I was gonna say England, don’t I feel hedonistic.
Seems I turned a few heads.
Well, at the risk of taking this in a direction it was never intended to go, The Summer Olympics are being held in Bejing this year and China is currently playing a major role in the continuing genocide. Steven Speilberg was supposed to sign on as a “creative director,” but he decided not to because of China’s role in the Darfurian genocide (Rwanda in slow motion–see the movie “Hotel Rwanda” with Don Cheadle if you don’t know what I’m talking about). “Love mercy, act justly, walk humbly…” must be more than words in a world such as this one. Personally, I think America should boycott the Olympics simply because every single one of those people in Darfur were made in God’s Image–just like us.
For more information and to find out what you can, go to savedarfur.org
That link has been on my blogroll since I started my site, but very, very few visitors have actually clicked the link. We can speak in tongues of men and angels and blog all the live long day, but if we have not love enough to make an effort to end just such an atrocity…aren’t our words meaningless?
(I really don’t mean to be so heavy. Honest, I don’t. The whole thing, and America’s unresponsiveness to it, has just really been gnawing at me lately. And I have SERIOUSLY got to get off my soapbox before I wear out my welcome…)
…to find out what you can do**, go to savedarfur.org