suffering

I wrote this after I read an article about prostitutes in India. An estimated 40% are children. These thoughts trampled through my mind:

I realize that through numbers.. or through anything, we try to make it not sound as bad. “Oh, well at least it isn’t this” but God’s heart ACHES for even one child displaced, captive, oppressed, poor, broken, lost. ONE CHILD, ONE PERSON, ONE BEING. He aches for even them. So to say it isn’t that bad… is insane almost. Even one person suffering is bad. Because humanity groans and aches in ways that some of us cannot comprehend. But others do. Every day of their lives. And it’s our role to fight the battle for them, to overcome this evil with love, to express sympathy against the apathy. We need to let the image of God run through our veins and souls and entire beings, we need to set the image of God ablaze inside of the sacred temples that we are and we need to reach out our hand and heart to those in dire need of hope.