I am moved

I have been reading my friend Alyssa's blog (thebarnun.blogspot.com) with such amazement. There are so many really horrible things going on daily and often I am so clueless. I know that evil exists but perhaps it is easier for me to ignore the scope of evil. Women and children are hideously abused all over the world and it appears that most don't realize or don't acknowledge how desperate the problems really are.

Early on I decided to work with youth because, I realized in my own life, they do not have a voice. Second to children, is the voiceless woman. It must be horrible to be doomed to an existence of slavery just because of your gender. It would be difficult to find hope. How do we help? I believe that this is exactly the type of issue Jesus spoke of when He gave us the Beatitudes. "Blessed are they that mourn.." I am mourning for these faces I do not know but Jesus knows each one. Lord make me an instrument of your peace.