Before the fun of Blogging really gets underway, let's pause to remember some prayer concerns, as it were. These are things i may or may not give more specific thought to in future posts, things i don't necessarily have answers for, but they're issues that i want to keep close to heart and mind as i go about a somewhat sheltered life; things that i should think of before spending $4 on coffee too often.
In no particular order...
The humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
The morass in Iraq, where 4-5,000 civilians are being killed and 100,000 displaced each month according to an NPR report yesterday. [Measuring Progress] [Fatalaties]
NOLA, a place in need of hope, protection, and rebuilding. [H-T ARTICLE]
America's public schools, which have been set up to fail by short-sighted politics.
The American people, hungering for leadership but filling the void with whatever comes along.
God's creation, which i'm hopeful that we're finally moving to take better care of, but which we've failed to tend to for too long.
No end in sight to the deficit spending that saddles future generations with debt.
AIDS and Malaria epidemics in Africa.
America's "non-system of illness care" (to quote Dr. Robert Stone, a health reform advocate in town). Our health care system worked well, i suppose, when "lifetime employment" with one large company was the dominant paradigm. But that is not the situation now. The W.H.O. ranks the US health care system approx. 35th in the developed world. We have a higher infant mortality rate and don't live as long on average as people in countries that spend 33%-50% what we do (per capita) on health. (i.e., France and Japan) [Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan]
Little things we do every day can help or hurt the situations above. Let's encourage one another to help.
Perhaps on to lighter fare tomorrow, such as the origin of the name of this Blog!
Thanks again for stopping by. :)
1 comment:
Thanks for posting that.
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