Continuing on an article from "Russia Today", The title states "87 million children under 7 spent entire lives in conflict - UNICEF.
The trauma of conflict interferes with the normal development of the brain. The constant exposure to violence causes irreversible damage to the brain. Children need safety and a nurturing environment to properly grow up. This disruption to their lives from conflict has long term effects. The article states that 80% of the 8.4 million children in Syria have lived in the civil war. One of three were born since the armed conflict began. This puts fear and loss into their minds. God have mercy on these little ones! I do not know any Syrians and it breaks my heart.
Sometimes I wonder if we spend more time and resources in cleaning up after these conflicts rather than preventative measures. I wish we could outlaw war. As I mentioned in the previous post, we are stuck with wars and rumors of war until Christ returns. That also means were are stuck with the trauma and trying to find ways to clean up after the damage. There will come a time when war will be outlawed-permanently.
What a challenge and what a stretching of my own faith to try to meet that challenge. There are so many organizations and people trying to help orphans, Their work is quite commendable. As for myself, I am still trying to figure out my role in all this. Keeping focused is something I need to work on. We all get involved in many things as life happens. I know that I am in the center of God's will. And we have to give ourselves grace with jobs, helping people, and our own human limitations. I was so physically weak, I could hardly function the past 4 days. But we pick up again and continue the journey to meet our objectives. I still keep the objective to help orphans in their distress in my mind.
The trauma of conflict interferes with the normal development of the brain. The constant exposure to violence causes irreversible damage to the brain. Children need safety and a nurturing environment to properly grow up. This disruption to their lives from conflict has long term effects. The article states that 80% of the 8.4 million children in Syria have lived in the civil war. One of three were born since the armed conflict began. This puts fear and loss into their minds. God have mercy on these little ones! I do not know any Syrians and it breaks my heart.
Sometimes I wonder if we spend more time and resources in cleaning up after these conflicts rather than preventative measures. I wish we could outlaw war. As I mentioned in the previous post, we are stuck with wars and rumors of war until Christ returns. That also means were are stuck with the trauma and trying to find ways to clean up after the damage. There will come a time when war will be outlawed-permanently.
What a challenge and what a stretching of my own faith to try to meet that challenge. There are so many organizations and people trying to help orphans, Their work is quite commendable. As for myself, I am still trying to figure out my role in all this. Keeping focused is something I need to work on. We all get involved in many things as life happens. I know that I am in the center of God's will. And we have to give ourselves grace with jobs, helping people, and our own human limitations. I was so physically weak, I could hardly function the past 4 days. But we pick up again and continue the journey to meet our objectives. I still keep the objective to help orphans in their distress in my mind.
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