This past weekend, I picked up the book Darfur Diaries. The story chronicles the journey of three individuals who traveled to the Sudan the summer of 2003. Their purpose was to document the atrocities that were taking place and bring a message back to the American policy makers.
The book is quite heart-wrenching and some of the acts of violence will make you cover your mouth and catch your breath. Can such evil really be occurring in this world?
A couple of weeks ago I saw a bumper sticker that read:
If you want peace, work for Justice.
After reading about the conflict in this region of the world.. a conflict that dates back over thirty years, I wondered this:
Is peace attainable?
In the book of John, Jesus says, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives." Is this peace an individual peace? And if we testify as witnesses to this individual peace, is that enough?
I do not know the answers to these questions.
I think the question we have to be asking, both ourselves and the greater world, is if peace on a global scale isn't attainable, does that mean we should cease working toward it?
Is the peace of God really ALL that to me?
posted by Kelly @ 2:15:00 PM
2 Comments:
good questions, kell
Some really smart person once said, "Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice."
I think that's how it goes. If it's not, I like it anyway.
I wonder what that definition does to our thinking. What would justice look like in Darfur and how do we obtain it?
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