So, how's life?
How is your life going? Up and down, probably - like with most of us ... we often think (o.k., I'll speak for myself), I often think, "gee, life's tough." There's a story to be told, that puts my head right every time I think of it.
I don't know, but I think the woman in the picture is not the one in the story.
A woman in a refugee camp
in East Africa, whose husband had just died and had left her with her remaining
children, tells the story of her family.
They had left their
village six weeks ago and walked to the refugee camp. Their thirty head of cattle all had died due to the drought ... there hadn't been any rain
for three years. They couldn't anymore feed their children, so they decided to leave.
But
some of their children - as well as their parents - were too weak for the
journey ... so they bundled up the ones strong enough. And they left behind those
of their children they knew would not survive the trip.
As well as their parents. They
left them … to die.
So, how's your life
going?