How Long, How Long?

Does anyone hear the voice of the oppressed? Does anyone respond?

So much media attention on events these days and yet when the fan fare is over has it made a lasting difference? A question that must have been asked for hundreds of years in a wide range of scenarios.

Last night I watched the CBC Passionate Eye documentary Daughters of Afghanistan. The journalist followed the lives of 4 women and a young girl, beginning in the spring of 2002. Go here to read the whole article. What was heart wrenching was to hear Dr Sima Sumar’s story. A brilliant passionate women who spent 6 months in the new Government of her country, only to be ousted by the fanatics. Only to find herself rejected in her country, and the International community ignoring what they previously had passionately stood beside her in. How soon we move on to another cause? How long, how long will we continue to sweep the abuse of power over women under the carpet?

Then this morning I read Rick’s article, This I don't understand, and I wept. How long, how long will it be that the area of sexual abuse will be swept under the carpet by the Church?

Mike draws our attention to the fact that 30,000 children starve to death every day. How long, how long will the helpless little ones be left to die?

Jane Fonda’s new book My Life So Far details her journey through lies that created a strange and false picture for her, as a young girl, on the truth of her own sexuality. Some don’t want those details, but as someone I respect said to me, unless you look at the details you will never uncover the truth. How long, how long do we hide from our own truth, God’s truth of who we are as sexual beings?

A prophet of old, Jeremiah, wandered in the desert, crying out for truth saying how long, how long?

How long will these voices be silenced? How long will I live silencing them?

Abba, oh Abba how long ?