WARNING: THE CONTENT IS GRAPHIC IN NATURE REGARDING GENOCIDE
God forgive me for being a fat American.
So rich and having very little of what it means to be in 'travail'. Complaining about the speed of my internet and the traffic.
That's what I thought when I heard a very difficult news report on 60 minutes about the rape of women in the middle of genocide in the Congo. More than 5 million have been killed...but worse is the method of war that is ravaging the Congo. Rape is being used among the troops to such unspeakable evil and extent that no girl, or woman is immune.
It is pure evil. And the world turns while 45,000 die per month.
The goal is pure evil to destroy the woman's soul, the husband's courage is decimated when he's is helpless, and an entire village is shamed and battered to no end with the forced imagery of watching village women getting raped multiple times.
When I heard this I was crying for Congo, the people and the women.
It was depressing to such a degree I've not felt and can only describe it as evil and darkness. What a lost world without God.
I forced myself to listen to the whole news segment. This is the world we live in.
It's also a need to pray for God's intercession and the healing of this land.
We must not turn our comfort zone back to soft and pampered America, but we must stare at evil and let that resonate in our hearts to what we are called to do. Being comfortable isn't what I feel we are called to - we are called to action and make a difference in this world.
In the end, the women who were victims sing of heaven, where they will find healing. Anderson Cooper said it best, "In the Congo, there isn't any healing, or hope."
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edward Burke