Eye Opening

Weighing heavy on my mind and heart are the children in Africa.  I was reading my friend's blog from yesterday and it was about how children are being targeted as human sacrifices.  She posted that she and her husband support a child in Uganda, and even though it's not directly affecting them, it is still affecting them.  She wrote that  the children are being abducted and stolen from their families to be sacrificed. The children are sacrificed to achieve "wealth" of different kinds by their abductors.  It is so sad to me, thinking about the helpless children, who live in fear for their lives at such a young age.  Not only are these children facing hardship economically, but now they face being taken to be sacrificed.  After reading her blog, my heart sank. It is so easy to be caught up in everything we have to do in our own lives. Focusing only on ourselves, when there is a whole world out there. I myself am guilty of being caught up in the things around me, but I do realize there's more out there, and I hope to be more in tune with what's going on in the world.