one little girl..
…so i’m too exhausted to formulate sensible thoughts.
the food drop was incredible.
i just wish we had had more to give…
i felt sick to my stomach when we started running out of food…
and then there was one little girl…
a little girl in a shopping cart.
she couldn’t play because she had no shoes.
she was school-aged but not in school.
she tried to drink a bottle of powerade before the top was even off.
i wanted to take her…away - anywhere but her present state of living.
instead i just put my sunglasses down as i loaded her mom’s cart.
i didn’t want her to see me cry…
she wasn’t some “reality show” or commercial i could just turn off because it was too difficult to watch…
she was real.
this was her life.
she haunts me now.
i wish we had had more…
next time we will have more - because she’s just one little girl…
and there are hundreds more like her…
i pray God lets me find her again.
i think i have to know that she’s okay…
at least she can remind me to never grow cold to the suffering of others just outside my cosy little corner of the world…at least she can motivate me to love more, give more, work more…
i needed to feel those tears today. i need to cry more over the state of others…
she needs me to do more than cry, though…
so i’ll keep her picture and never forget.
never.
peace.
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