August 23, 2006

I received an e-mail from an old firiend yesterday. That images are still with me and still haunting me. I did not think too much of it when I opened it something about an 8 year old boy in Iran or Iraq I am not going back to the e-mail to confirm the country but it was a Muslem country. The boy had been caught stealing bread. The men took the boy held his arm on the ground and ran a vechile over the child's arm to crush it. The pictures were there in my face this child being held down and a tire running over his arm I think his face may be before me the rest of my days. We hear stories all the time but these days the images are so "in our face" horrible acts, curelty, injustice, war, famine. I just want to cry out how much longer Lord. How much longer will your children endure this world that we are not a part of.

Wild waves of the sea, flinging up the foam of their own shame and disgrace; wondering stars, for whom the gloom of eternal darkness has been reserved forever. It was of these people, moreover, that Enoch in the seventh (generation) from Adam prophesied when he said, Behold , the Lord comes with His myriads of holy ones (ten thousands of His staints) To execute judgment upon all and to convict all the impious (unholy ones) of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed (in such an) ungodly (way), nad of all the severe (abusive, jarring) things which ungodly simmers have spoken against Him. Jude 13:15