I don't have a lot to say tonight, because I'm just a little pissed our group page isn't up so that I can fill you guys in and give you a way to help out. That about eleven thousand kids are dying today without my doing anything about it. I'm downright angry about that.
Something I feel you learn as you grow up is that the more you depend upon other people to make your own plans work out, the less likely they are to work out. The next thing you learn is that there are certain things that naturally depend upon other people and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. That's what's making me a little upset right now. I can't do anything just yet, and I promised I would be able to because I counted on somebody else. This really sucks.
I want to help raise money to feed the hungry.
I want to go another thirty hours without food, to reconfigure my heart's perception to the injustice in this world.
And I also want to give you a way to help out these people, because there's a satisfaction in that for you as well.
And it might just be the first thing that this journal will be globally useful for.
I've been getting sixty to seventy views a day.
Sixty to seventy viewers.
Sixty to seventy souls with a natural inbred desire to help and to rectify the injustice of this world, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, teach the uneducated, and give broken hearts a hope for the future. To mend broken lives. To fill an empty stomach...
To save a life.
Why isn't this page up already? Why can I do nothing in this moment? Why am I forced to remain idle as nearly eighty kids have died in the mere ten minutes it's taken me to write this entry. Every eight seconds.. a child dies from a preventable affliction. One that is fully capable of being helped. One that America alone would be able to remedy.
I've been told it would take an approximate twenty billion dollars to end world poverty. To end it altogether. At the same time I heard that's how much Americans spend annually on ice cream. The same video that's heart was broken to hear the rallying cry "God Bless America" when he already has far beyond what he has the rest of the world. And what have we been blessed for? Why not to help others?
If one person in a room were to have fifteen fruits.. and the others were to have none, or close to it, why should this person not do everything he can to help feed them all. Why would he watch them starve to death with a selfishly cruel and full belly of his own? It just doesn't make sense to me.
How can one be so heartless to another? A neighbor? That he would let him starve as he is able to throw out his excess food on a regular basis? It makes me sick to my stomach, and I don't think it's just the countless calories I was fortunate enough to whimsically down without a second thought.
The world of the poor and the hungry is a tragic, yet beautiful, place.
The world of the rich and the selfish is an indulgently overjoyed, yet disgusting, place.
Anyone see the problem? Or is it just me?
Now, I don't feel right taking in birthday presents while this goes on and as long as there's been a thirty hour famine available I've obligingly declined birthday gifts and requested the money only goes towards this cause. Maybe it was God's timing, but I was born on one of the days it takes place. Generally the same throughout the years. Probably not a coincidence.
Now, as soon as it becomes possible, I will definitely get this fundraising page up. I will give you the opportunity to respond and to aid the tragedies of this world, to make it a better place, and to restore its brokenness. I humbly implore you as your dedicated author, I beg you as a friend, and I plead with you as a cohabitant of this sad world, please spare whatever you can. A lone dollar will meet one starving child's basic needs for a day. Thirty will feed, clothe, medicate and educate him or her for a month. The best part is that larger organizations have pledged to match whatever is donated, and this is very encouragingly accurate in the plural. Ryan told me that there are at least ten willing to do so, meaning each dollar that you donate will perform the aforesaid for nearly two weeks or a year, respectively.
Also if twelve, meaning just one in five of you, can donate thirty dollars, you will be enabled to follow where your money's going through my journal updates. This is something I can do on my undisturbed and uninterrupted self, and no one else can keep me from it, so I personally give you my word that I will inform you of where the money ends up should you donate and choose to check in. As soon as I find out, I will let you all know. World Vision is an amazing program dedicated to perhaps one of the noblest causes of mankind, to help itself out of a heartbreaking state by the help of God.
Will you be a part?
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