Is a Western life worth more than an African life?

It is a tough question for some of you, a question that you don't want to answer. Here is a short video made by Seth Chase featuring Simon Guillebaud and Enoch. Watch it if you dare to be a Christian.

To find out more about Simon and his great work go to Great Lakes Outreach or see Fadical for more about Seth.

Constance :-(

By Sam Sanchez

For those tears I died

It is only one day until I am 41. In other words I am 14,975 days old today counting the leap years and I am in this strange place once again. One of my favorite things is to go to http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ . It is a site where people write their deepest secrets anomalously. Most times it makes me so sad that it aches inside my heart. So much so, that I cry out to God, why? I can see so many lost people through the eyes of Jesus and I can feel it when I sense tears in His eyes.

We are so shielded here in our suburban lives. Here are just a taste of what is crying out of the darkness.

I want to get raped, because i want to be a teen mom.

I want to be more passionate in God, but I dont know how to be

I wish I could believe in God.

whenever im drunk, im happier because i dont remember all my problems. im only 15.

Please, God, Buddha, Allah, whoever you are... don't let me die alone.

Sometimes I doubt things will ever go well for me since my life has been nothing but hard. God has failed me, and I am pretty certain he will fail me too.

My attempt on my life in January was not the first time. I just had the guts to carry it through the second time. But now, the meds don't and aren't helping me, they just give me a mask.

i'm afraid there is no God and everyithing i have believed in is a lie

I turned my back on Christianity after leukemia killed my grandmother and my uncle in the same year and found out that cancer is genetic in Mum's side of the family.

my dad abused me from the day i was born up until the month before i turned 18

i will never love or believe "your God".

I hear voices telling me to hurt myself, and because of it, I've attempted suicide twice. I've been cutting myself since I was 12

I think my biggest fear at the end of my life, is that I will feel like God would regret letting me be born

I replace the pain with: drugs, sex, alcohol, and music

I wish I could give my life to someone who could really use it, I feel more and more that I am wasting it, and that I was a mistake in God's plan, that somehow I fell through the cracks and he has forgotten about me. I just want to figure out why I am here, do it as soon as possible, so I can leave.

I can't let anyone see who I really am, it is too painful

I'm praying to someone's god that no one I know sees this.

And Jesus said
Come to the water,
Stand by my side
I know you are thirsty
You won't be denied
I felt every tear drop
As in darkness you cried
And I strove to remind you
That for those tears I died

Let us be the hand the reaches into the dark and grab a hand to pull it into the light.

Not easy to forgive

Well before I start I need to ask for your forgiveness as this blog is very late. Last year we as a family have been praying for work to keep flowing in and now God is blessing us overflowing. So much so that I have to somehow learn to manage all the work at the same time. Multi-tasking, I think it is a girl thing.

The question of forgiveness came in as we covered the last of "The Legend of Joe Jacobson" series "Right where you want 'em". For those who have missed it, it is the story of Joseph son of Jacob. No matter how bad your life is, Joseph was worst and no matter how good it gets, Joseph had it better.

He was sold into slavery – God was with him;
He rose to prominence among the slaves – God was with him;
He was falsely accused of sexual misconduct and thrown into jail – God was with him;
He rose to prominence among the prisoners – God was with him;
He was forgotten in jail – God was with him;
He rose to prominence in all of Egypt – God was with him;

Do you see a pattern? Yes God was with him all the time. He was silent in places but He was never absent.

Can anyone really forgive? Forgiveness is not for the weak. The most courageous thing you can do is to forgive. Easy words to write but are they easy to do? In life people that have hurt you the most will one day need you. Joseph found himself in that very position, he could have taken revenge against his brothers, and he had the power. But he did what anyone would have knowing that God was with him do. He gave what they did not deserve.

It is at that moment that an abused person has the tendency to abuse. It might not even be the person who mistreated you in the first place but you now have the power. Knowing that God is always with you, what will you do in that situation? Would you be God's rod that smiteth? You see, it is easy to play God than give what is not deserved.