"Sometimes I would like to ask God why he allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world, when He could do something about it...but I'm afraid He may ask me the same question." Anonymous.

I'm going to be honest, I would rather not look at these pictures. They are hard.  It hurts my heart, it is easier to not look and forget.  It is easier to go along with my easy life and not think about the pain she is suffering.  The pictures below are of one of a little 9 year old girl with Down Syndrome in an orphanage.  She is NINE.

This picture was taken a month ago, she is ELEVEN now.  This beautiful little girl is wasting away.  She is literally dying at this moment as we sit in our comfy houses, with our pantries filled with food, thinking about the things we want to buy.

She is my Sister in Christ.  What does that mean; we are all Brothers and Sisters in Christ?  If that little girl were my sister, I would be freaking out.  I would sell everything to get her out of there.

Sometimes I wonder why people went along with the Holocaust.  11 million people died because everyone went along with the message they were fed by the Nazis.  I read about those people in my history book and wondered how they went along with the killing, why they didn't stop it. 

Will people look back at my generation with the same questions?  Every year, 15 million children die from starvation.  15 million.  That's not including adults, just children.  Will they wonder why we didn't do anything, why we sat in our comfy homes and just watched the commercials about the starving children in Africa.  Why we lived so comfortably compared to the rest of the world?     

But I think, even more importantly, what will God say when I reach the gates of Heaven?  When I am so close to spending eternity in His presence, will I have done enough?

The pictures came from here.  If you click on this link, you can see where money is being raised to save our sister.