April 20, 2009
invisibilty
No one likes to think that they are invisible to the world, their neighbors, their friends. We like to be seen. We like to be seen and loved for who we really are. If we are in pain we may hide away, but what we really want is for those we love to see us and help us out of our pain.
In youth group tonight we watched Invisible Children about the children who are being abducted and forced into being child soldiers for the rebel army in Uganda. These children, and the people advocating in Africa, feel like they are invisible to the rest of the world and especially the rich, powerful people in the U.S.
I don’t want to be invisible either. I don’t want my actions to be inconsequential and insignificant. I don’t want to be invisible to those children who feel invisible all over the world and in my own backyard and in my own family.
April 7, 2009
filling in some blanks
Let’s see which readers I have left after my long absence. My guess: my mom, my sister and Juliet (because she just wrote me a comment). Anyone else? ;)
There have been a lot of new things in my life lately. New jobs, new people, new places, new age (not the genre of music, but a new age for me – I’m now 23!), and probably soon, a new living situation. I’m trying to find my balance again. I’m happy. Very happy, but I’m just trying to figure out how to fit everything in.
As my birthday present, I got to go to California to see Anna for her birthday. The weather was lovely, as was the birthday girl.
That’s all for now.
