do we leave them"wounded and dying on the Jericho Road????????

[Judy Hamilton]

Prayer was and is involved with this post. Are we truely our brother's keeper
or is this an overused christianese phrase?

With the desire to raise awarness of the plight of other peoples...Could
Cambodia have been spared a national tradgety? 1975 through the
early 80's were grievous years in Cambodian history.
With the population of this small country (not even the size of Texas)
this was a geonide comparable to WWII.

I truely believed, prior to my journey to the lovely peoples of
Cambodia and enduring a slap in the face of the
magnitude of Cambodian massacre of millions at the behest of a
communist ideology, that something of this magnitude this would
never happen again. In my naivete' I believed that mankind had
learned from history.


I placed a serious thread down the board..and recieved only one response

I do not desire to be argumentive...I just want to discuss
how we (United States) as one of the nations who are on
Center Stage of the International Community can be instrumental
in preventing the pages of history from being inscripted with another genocide??? Do we as Christians hold a responsiblity to make our voices
heard in these International concerns ?? Or do we leave them
"wounded and dying on the Jericho Road?"

All that is wrong with the world can be viewed in the album below.

I truely believe this.

http://heyjude.smugmug.com/gallery/1304056

Judy

[Marilyn Lawson]

Prayer was and is involved with this post. Are we truely our brother's keeper
or is this an overused christianese phrase?



I placed a serious thread down the board..and recieved only one response

I do not desire to be argumentive...I just want to discuss
how we (United States) as one of the nations who are on
Center Stage of the International Community can be instrumental
in preventing the pages of history from being inscripted with another genocide??? Do we as Christians hold a responsiblity to make our voices
heard in these International concerns ?? Or do we leave them
"wounded and dying on the Jericho Road?"

All that is wrong with the world can be viewed in the album below.

I truely believe this.

http://heyjude.smugmug.com/gallery/1304056

Judy


Judy

I read all the post that you and many here post.
Sometimes I feel that I might sound like a complete idiot if I respond.

I have seen so many people write things that seem so exact or elaborate, but I can't seem to do that.

I write from the heart and sometimes I find that it sounds so simple.

I was amazed by my responce to your trip.

I have been praying so much for you - as I was worried about you going back.
That I did not realize that the pics and stories would hit me so hard.


I know the feeling of no one responding to what you write - I have gotten use to it.

But please know - it isn't that I was trying to aviod responding, I just wasn't sure how to put in words how the pics and stories made me feel.

PLease keep sharing and showing what pics you have taken.
We need to keep learning!!!

Hugs

Marilyn

[Barb Bouldrey]

Judy,

I do not believe we can stop history from repeating itself as long as there are little evil men in little countries who think of themselves as BIG men who somehow obtain the power needed to control a nation.

Sadam is just a repetition of the Iatola (can't remember how that is spelled) There are dictators just like him in small nations in South America and Africa as well as in the Middle East.

I will never understand how Hitler, Mussilini or even some of the dictators of thousands of year ago ever gained their power. But it happened. And it continues to happen.

You asked about the U.S. getting involved. Isn't that what happened in Vietnam? Isn't that what happened in Korea and continues? Isn't that what is happening in Iraq? The U.S. keeps getting involved in an effort to destroy communism, tyranny, dictators and human suffering.

The U.S. has never pulled in its borders and become self-absorbed. But we have never tried to overtake other nations in our efforts to help. We have just tried to assist a country in seeking their freedom...even from us.

The only way to completely be our brother's keeper is to use force and take over countries making them our possessions. Then we could eliminate much of the evil and suffering. But we have no desire to do that.

We can only do so much.

I know you have seen the devastation first hand.....again. You saw so much suffering while you served in Vietnam. You saw man's inhumanity to man. And now you have been reminded of that horror.

Don't let it become an obsession that destroys your joy. Don't let it rob you of peace of mind. Just seek God's leadership in what small part you can play in helping the needs around you as well as overseas.

Mother Teresa lived a life of poverty among the poor. Did she destroy hunger and poverty? NO. Did she make a difference? YES! Was her attitude one of discouragement and defeat? NO! She was a holy lady of joy and peace.

She was a great example for all of us.

I know you are exhausted and troubled. May God give you peace and rest.

Barb

[Gina Stevenson]

Mother Teresa lived a life of poverty among the poor. Did she destroy hunger and poverty? NO. Did she make a difference? YES! Was her attitude one of discouragement and defeat? NO! She was a holy lady of joy and peace.

She was a great example for all of us.


Yes, one of those "wish I could've met her before she died" people ... another, btw, was Erma Bombeck ... she could write to lift women's spirits ... and also lived in Scottsdale, right next door to Phoenix ... but died before there was ever a chance to learn she was right there for how long .......

[Bruce Carriker]

This question is in no way meant to diminish the need that exists in Cambodia, and countless other places around the world. But how is it that we can see, so clearly, the need that exists in these places and completely miss the need in the next block, or the next county, or next door?

[Jim Franklin]

After the Spanish-American War we did take over the Philippines with the goal of helping them to a higher standard of living and government and were due to give them their independence when WWII came along so on July 4, 1946 they becme an independent nation. The the Communists moved in called the Hukbalahups and in order to resist that effort dictatorship became their mode of government. We could have taken Cuba too. but didn't and maybe we would have been better off now if we had and avoided the string of dictatorships there. Democratic evangelism has been our ideal in foreign relations for we believe that our mode of government is best for us it is best for others and in that way since we do not think of ourselves as a threat to others they will not be a threat to us resulting in peace and freedom for the whole world but as long as there is a Satan and he gains control of the minds of little men who wish only to be Big men in control there will always be a struggle between the forces of good and evil and freedom and enslavement.

[Ian Gentles]

Yes Judy, we our churches, our nations should have done something, but its was politicaqly easier not to, so we all changed the channel when Cambodia, in those days, came onto our screens. We are still doing that today! Maybe our nations just cant help everyone, I dont know?