I want you to please do three things for me:
1.) Watch this half hour youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc2.) Share it with everyone, all over the Internet
3.) Give your own support
My Mom and I have watched a full length movie on this same subject, but this specific one was no less heart-rending for me.
We live our lives, every day, the same as we have always done...we wake up, eat breakfast, do our schoolwork, and complete everything else that's scheduled into our lives...and we have no idea about the horrors that other nations, other people, are going through day after day...year after year....or...we just don't care.
This movie can make people care. It can force them to go outside their own comfortable everyday lives and give something back to the rest of the world; a world that needs every prayer and every form of support that we are able to give.
When I watched this video myself, I was moved in several ways...
one...I was stabbed with sadness.
two...I was filled with anger
three...I immediately wanted to help in any way I could
I felt sorry for, not only the children and families of this horror-stricken country...but also for Joseph Kony, the man striking this horror. What entered his heart and made it so heartless? How awful was his own childhood that he would grow up to be the #1 most wanted criminal in our nation?
What about these children? They must hopelessly wonder day and night what kind of life would be so pointlessly hateful that they can't even go to sleep and have the common assurance that they will actually wake up in the morning...or that one of their siblings won't be missing...or that their parents will still be physically intact. They must wonder what kind of God would exist and let this happen to them for over 20 years...
These people need help. If one evil man, a man such as Joseph Kony, can make this huge of a indescribable difference all over his country...then thousands of Americans today...and people all over the world...can make a difference too.
We can stop him...YOU can stop Joseph Kony.
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I appreciate the cause, I really do. But see, I recently found out that only 1/3 of the money donated to this organization actually gets to these people. Plus, I find it fishy because this guy is not the only one doing horrible things the same way, but there's not a big campaign for those things... I don't know, I feel uncomfortable donating, knowing that only a portion of my money gets there and there are so many causes like it out there. But I can offer these people and this man my prayers, as they certainly need a lot of prayers!
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