our time with my sister, eemo (aunt in korean), is coming to an end. 7 more sleeps after tonight. it's been a great time for all of us and it's sad that it's coming to an end. A is really going to miss her eemo. her first question in the morning is, "can i go wake eemo up?" ha ha... so of course, me who wants more sleep, says yes and i hear them playing.
when my sister came, we had christmas. gifts galore from herself, but from friends and family back home. we got mac and cheese, the real kraft kind, alfredo, tons of kim (korean version of the seaweed for sushi) from my mom (A's favorite), 3 bags of doritos!!!, and others... among those, JO sent me a couple magazines to keep me up to date with fashion and beauty tips. ha ha...
well as i was reading one of the magazine, i ran across this article about a book that's out. it's women from the magazine in a book club and then discussing it. the book's title is "air" by willow wilson. it's a comic. "...in the story Blythe, a flight attendant with a fear of heights, who's swept up in an international terror plot. along the way, she finds a mythical world where a girl can wake up one day to discover she's a superhero."
i read the comments the book club members said and this one struck me... "i thought the best part was the idea that a country - in this case a fictional southeast asian one - could literally disappear because people forgot about it. it's like there are these places where people are living, but because i'm not aware of them, they don't exist for me."
this woman thought this was the best part and my heart ached because in reality that's what people do. they know that there are lots of places around the world that exist, but if they don't consciously think about it, they aren't really there. we really exist just in the place we are... don't think too much about what's going on around the world.
sad to say this is me too. i remember when i first started to get to know P and found out where he wanted to move to... i was like, where is that? knowing i've read it in books, but didn't know where it was on a map. i still don't know where a lot of countries are... but i know if i read on each one, my heart would break with what is going on around the world... because they don't know Jesus. how heartbreaking that is.
i think of acts 1:8 "but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in jerusalem, and in all judea and samaria, and to the ends of the earth." to the ends of the earth... we have to be witnesses... i think that means also that we should know what's going on on this earth... how could we be witnesses without knowing what's going on. i just finished reading "kite runner", thanks BK for the book. and at some point this guy is living in the states and has all this past in him... and i think of how in the states the world is right there. people need a witness... they don't know Jesus... most of those people have been through suffering... not just oh i hurt my leg or i can't find a job, but stomach turning pain... war, watching families being raped, seeing friends being murdered... the world is right there...
if we don't pray for and cry out for those countries, people groups, nations... how will they know about Christ... if we don't lift them up, they will be forgotten like the comic says and what will happen with those people... will they ever hear truth? i feel that we need to keep talking about what's going on in the world and bring it up on their behalf to the Lord. He hears our cries... don't forget those out there... don't let this idea of a country disappearing because people forget about them come true... that merely happens in comics... or could it happen in real life?
