Suffer the Children...

There are days when I'm glad I don't have full access to our biggest pay-channel on TV, MNet (we do however get 2 hours "open time" every evening, 5-7pm). Every Sunday night they broadcast an investigative journalism programme called Carte Blanche.

Last night during open time the ad for the programme mentioned this - the case of one little boy who died of severe malnutrition. It was found that another 4 children have also died recently, same cause of death, same place caring for them.

The preview of the programme alone gave me a severely bad night - I spent a good deal of it half-awake, half-praying, half-terrified, half-scared for these poor kids. How can humans, our "intelligent" race, made in God's image, so severely neglect and abuse the little ones placed in our care, and then try and brush off blame? What about the little girls in a Chinese orphanage, whose story I read 15 years ago and still can't lose in the mists of memory? What about the child for sale, whose mother couldn't afford food? What on earth are we doing?

I just want to cry when I think of what children all over the world go through every day. Hunger, abuse, terror, not asking to be here but being handed the worst possible existance, all because us grown-ups don't take our responsibility to them and each other seriously. Don't see God in them and protect that with our lives, with all we have.

Oh Lord, when will it all end. Your little lambs, Lord, Your little lambs...