April 23, 2007
This striking image moves me. Deeply. Like a cardiac arrest of my inner-most being. My first thought was to snatch up that little girl and rescue her from her afflictions. James 1:27 flooded into my mind, "Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."
Random thoughts crashed into each other: What is true religion? What is the connection between "visit[ing]..." and "keep[ing]"? How can Kevin [Carter] walk away? Could I walk away? Would I walk away?
Read the story behind the picture.
"Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us." 1 John 3:18-19