So I am trying to follow what is going on in Gaza at the moment and the more I read, the more upset and unsettled I am. Of course the brutality of war is a horrible thing but I just keep getting this question flashing across my head : When will this end? All this fighting, what is it all achieveing, in the long run?
Check this picture out, and ask, what is this achieving in the long run? Where will this lead?
The cost of this war is people, individual people, on both sides, who have stories, families, lives.
This breaks my heart.
Cheers
J-Out
3 comments:
Right. War tears apart. The saddest thing about war is the long term and hidden consequences. The lack of access to health care, not only for those who are bombed and shot and what not, but those who are generally sick or pregnant who will have their care drastically reduced if not gone. Each person who dies takes with them the mystery of their life and all they have experienced and all they have to offer. And for no good reason. Every time there is a war, part of our collective humanity dies.
I hear ya. It's really disheartening. I appreciate you pouring out your heart about it! Thanks for sharing.
Last year I went to listen to Fr. John Deer speak on Jesus way of peace and how war is never what we are called to. Yet we have a whole 'religious right' that thinks we should be at war. Perhaps we have become lost in the way of demanding our rights (individuals perspective) while we have lost our ability to accept responsibility (for the community perspective).
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