Excerpts from the Peanut Gallery

beauty from ashes

its pretty late and i am exhausted and should be in bed, but truthfully, considering all the things that could motivate me to write tonight, its the fact that I just turned Daniel powter on and I really like the cd, so i don't want to quit while a good song is on. lets see how fast i can type, if i can keep up with him you might get something good tonight.
so i just got back from the "constant Gardner." Its one of those movies where everyone stays in their seats long after the credits have told you who's-who among the key grips and then silently files out. pretty powerful stuff. i caught myself as i left thinking, well at least its fiction. can you imagine? but the thing is, its not fiction, not all of it. last week i went to a meeting put on by STAND canada (students taking action now in darfur..i think anyways go here: http://www.cfjs.ca/darfur/ and that will tell you more) and david kilgour and it was about what is (NOT) being done for the genocide. one scene in the movie is set in southern sudan and the movie is not at all about the genocide, but it includes a scene where there is a raid on this village anyway- not because they had to, it had nothing to do with the plot- but because crap like that happens, stuff that has nothing to do with the plot of your life or mine, but that happens and we cant just pretend it doesn't or that it is just fiction.
i know that there is a lot of talk that goes around, it seems so hard to get involved, but why? what will it take? there are very minor things that we each could be doing, that if we each together were doing it would make a diff, but only a few do it, so it does squat.
i know this is all very well and good, for me to talk, but i will invariably always fall short myself. so dont think i am condemning anyone, but i guess if we just get the words out of our mouth, if only to the very few people reading this its the starting step right?
hey but there is grace in the midst. things have been devastaed in Guatemala, a country a few of you recognise as being close to my heart. hurricane stan did some serious damage- over 1900 dead and over 200,000 houses gone. this all happened this week- did you know? but i just got an email from a friend who is a missionary down there and the giving hearts of the people there within guatemala, who are giving out of NOTHING amazes and humbles me. It was truly an encouraging email. God makes tons out of nothing- diamonds from ashes eh.

welp, daniel is winding down and so am i. just some late night food for thought, i will try and make the next one sooner and not so down.

posted by Kiki @ 9:48 p.m.