Tuesday, September 18, 2007

LUMO:One Woman's Struggle to Heal in a Nation Beset By War

If you've never felt compelled to help another person, another race, another country or even someone in need...please see LUMO: One Woman's Struggle to Heal a Nation Beset By War.


Lumo is a woman amongst the hundreds of women being treated by the organization Heal Africa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the fistula she endured. These women were violently raped and many brutally wounded. This is Lumo's story; her struggle for freedom, life in Christ and healing.


LUMO is playing at the Oak Street Cinema - 309 Oak St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55414 – this Thursday at 7 and 9 PM.

For more information or a preview...

http://www.gomafilmproject.org/
www.pbs.org/pov/lumo/ - http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2007/lumo/update.html

Sunday, September 16, 2007

What if...?

What if you never get to say goodbye? Or rather never get to say I love you? Or even, I'm sorry? What if the words stay stuck in your throat, holding there afraid to whisper past your lips? Afraid those little words would change the world around you, afraid that life would rotate to the opposite of its current position. What if you let too much time go by? Let life dwindle away as the salt through the hour glass. Each moment of time slipping though from the present into the past, seeming so slow yet it’s gone before you’ve even realized the moment was yours to have. What if you don't forgive? What if you hang on to the bitterness and pain? Letting the hurt eat at your soul, letting the pain multiply with each passing day. Causing your heart to harden; becoming like bricks that lay the basis for a hardened home, an angry place. What if you lived in fear? Fearful of tomorrow, of hurt and pain; fearful of what may be. So afraid you never let yourself live life to the fullest. What if you forget to call? What if you break your plans? What if you hold on to yesterday and forget that tomorrow is still coming? What if you lived wholly in the past and never embraced the future and change as it came?

But what if you just let go of all inhibitions? What if you truly loved? What if you placed life on a pedestal and not the material things you think about so often? What if you lived for others and not yourself? What if you let it all go?


What if today was your last day?

Sunday, September 9, 2007

She's Lost It All

She's lost it all. Everything she worked to gain; now she's landed upon her face. She'd put her life into so many things and they've vanished. It seems as if the fog that was blinding her for so long has lifted and she's been left with much of nothing at all. Life before was so easy, almost as if a big wave had come and she'd ridden upon the crest for so long. Riding high and living without apprehensions. Now the wave has crashed, descended upon her life and taking everything down in its wake. The spindrift splashed upon all that is her life. Remnants are strewn about, having suffered the dynamism of the wave. Broken pieces assimilated with other fragments of the world she had built. Lying amongst the rubble, she is incapable of pulling herself together. She must look for help. But she's afraid and unsure where to turn. It seems as if she does turn for help and ends upon her face yet again. Is she forever stuck in this insanity? Or can she recuperate and recover her life? If not for her sake, for the sake of those around her?

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Let Go

I realized today how angry I could still be. How much it could still bother me. Remembering how they hurt me, it brought tears to my eyes. The pain I went through, then being fed so many lies. So many things promised to me. I thought it was the best, everything it ever should be.

The one moment that changed my life. As a slap to the face, even through all I had sacrificed. Then things weren't so grand. That was the moment when things were no longer as planned.Almost as if a switch had been turned. Everything changed, lies came into the light and I felt burned.

I gave and gave, hoping for so much more. Then I felt the wind knocked out of me as I fell to the floor.Doing my best to still be positive and do what I should. Never feeling like it was enough, try as I could.Down the gutter I fell right where they sent me. Feeling trapped, suffocated, I struggled to get free.

Eventually the truth was revealed and my eyes were opened. I learned the truth about what was spoken.My pain and anguish left unspoken. I walked away with more than my heart broken. Running as fast as I could I tried to get away from everything around me. Leaving behind the friends, pain and even the God I thought He should be.

But today I live as though I've been set free. Continually forgiving and letting Him lead.Seeing what good in it all I can find. Still knowing people always act their kind.Knowing I have to give Him the control. If I do, it will heal my soul.