Saviors of Life

Hi there!
It’s been a few hours since my last vent sooo here goes…
I was doing my usual blogstalking and kept running across people who have adopted from Ethiopia like my sister Sage is going to do soon. I've been so impressed and just strongly affected by it today. I don't know how much I 'should' share about my personal feelings but here goes...

Several times today I felt like walking out my front door and shouting; "Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned! Babies cry without mommy to snuggle, 2 million children are parentless. Does anyone care?!"
My soul is drawn out by the pain and suffering in our world. REAL People are dying, simply because they were born in a poor country where food and clean water and lack of medication prevent them from living, at all. I feel that Indifference to this is a sickening plague! -ok that sounds harsh but it’s a hard ugly truth.

People are dying of malaria. And of AIDs. And of hunger.
IT’S Totally preventable, and in our country the infected person’s disease can literally be rendered undetectable if proper medication is given early enough. They could live a full life!!! Children with HIV can take medicine that works so well that some tests can not even detect that they are HIV+.
By the way I want the world to know that there is no risk of getting HIV or AIDs by: Kissing, Shaking hands, touching, cleaning or bathing the infected person, cleaning up spilled blood, sharing cups, sharing food, sharing sheets, towels or clothing, Using toilets, sleeping in a room with them or by mosquitoes or insect bites!! http://transracial.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/hiv-stigma-and-adoption

I wish we could each see our potential, our ability to do for others that which they can not do for themselves! (and I’m plainly talking about the children and the elderly of this world.) We can make a difference! We can help someone. We can change a life. And I mean by doing very little, you don’t have to adopt.
I mean... You could pray!!! You could give a dollar to humanitarian aid to pay for food, or medical care, or schooling. You could go on a trip. You could hold a hand of someone dying. You could just CARE when you hear a story, instead of blowing it off. Just CARE.
I am so pained for families that are devastated, because of AIDs. A mother is dyeing, right now, looking at her child she will leave behind. Who will love her child? In Uganda they give precious infants numbers not names!!! If they live out the year they get a name! The little infants are Dying, not because of the disease, but because they don't have access to medication that could give them a normal life. Grandparents who are fortunate to still be alive are burdened by MANY grandchildren they can barely afford to feed. They heartwrenchingly have to choose which of their grandchildren to give away to the orphanage!! This is all because they can't afford a cheap drug, or the simple nutrition that would allow the drug to work?
How can we sit back and just allow this? Could we be so greedy that we can't give our time or energy or money to help?
This is my prayer to God for the Orphans of the world:
Dearest Heavenly Father, Help us to give! Help us to actually open our hearts and mourn, so that we are no longer constipated emotionally! Help us to break down the barriers of our selfishness and find joy in simply caring! Let us be as excited for a “paper pregnancy” (an adoption) as we would be for a biological pregnancy! Sear our hearts with the brand of those hurting and helpless that it may forever be a mark of charity in our souls and minds. And last but not least, Inspire us everyday how to make a little bit of a difference and truly be saviors of life.
And this I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.