Asi Es La Vida...

Hotel Rwanda

I just finished watching Hotel Rwanda. I watched it for the first time over a year ago. I remember watching the buses of foreigners leaving the hotel to go to safety and promising myself that I would not be one of those people - I will not use my privilege to protect myself while others suffer. I don't know if I will have the courage to follow through on that promise, but I pray that God will strengthen me.

If I could trace the reason why I am leaving tomorrow morning, it would go back to a single line in that movie. This one line cut to my heart and made me sob with it's truth. A reporter after hearing of a man's confidence that the world would respond and help them after seeing people being massacred replied that the response people would have after seeing the atrocities would be this: "They will look at their televisions and say, 'Oh my God, that is terrible!' Then they will finish their dinner."

I must try my best to react. I must try my best not to turn away from suffering and console myself with excuses of how I can do nothing. Maybe all I can do is love... but I will do that as long as God grants me grace and strength to do it.

posted by Steve @ 9:29 PM