"But I know who he is...because I see him on this picture." MAKE KONY FAMOUS

I first heard about Invisible Children last year at DCF when they came to talk. Instantly I was moved by their cause and was amazed that such injustice and cruelty was going on. Let me first start off by saying that I am ridiculously naive and I am so selfish that it is almost sickening. On a daily basis I worry about myself and my problems but don't even think that in other parts of the world there are children who are scared for their lives and families who live in constant fear that their children will be ripped away and will be sold for sex or trained to kill. I am so selfish. Even right now I can't begin to imagine what that feels like, what that constant fear and terror could even amount to. As I sit in my pillow-top bed with pillows surrounding me typing on my Apple computer there are children trying to fall asleep but can't because they haven't eaten, they are sick, they are sleeping on the ground, they are terrified someone will come take them or even worse kill them. Tiny voices cry out in the night, I'm sure ear-wrenching screams are heard throughout and millions of tears are shed. I am so selfish. There are many factors to these awful circumstances but one very influential factor is Joseph Kony

It makes my heart sing seeing my Facebook news-feed being blown up with the Youtube video about Joseph Kony. People I wouldn't even expect are all joining in to make Kony Famous and it makes me so excited.  After watching the video and being reminded that I am so small and my problems are so unbelievably miniscule, my heart was dying inside. Seeing faces of the children and knowing that some evil evil man can ruin so many peoples lives I couldn't help but have tears streaming down my face. I want to go there and hug the kids, I want to go and adopt all of them and bring them here, I want to go feed their little tummies, I want to go kiss all the little boo-boos, I WANT TO LOVE THEM, but most importantly I WANT THE WAR TO END so they can live in a little less fear.

While I don't think it is plausible for me to go over there right now, right this instant there is something that I can do and that WE can do. We can continue to make Kony famous- don't let the initial emotional appeal and sudden outburst die. Let's continue to make this big and talk about it to anyone and everyone. My gut tells me that as the week continues the newness and large impact of this video will die down and we will all go on about our lives and worrying about our "problems." But my challenge and prayer is that WE all remember how SMALL we are and how BIG our God is. Our problems that we think we have are so minute compared to people in other parts of the world and I hope that we can remember that and remind each other of that fact.

James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

We are called to take action. So my friends take action make this a conversational topic, give money to the cause, buy a T-shirt (which I personally think are super cute btw), buy a bracelet, buy a Kony Action Packet. Like Nike says Just Do It.  Do something about it, take action, do what we are called to do- Love others as we love ourselves (and let me just tell you, we love ourselves waaaaay to much).

If you haven't checked out the video here it is:

 Also for more information about Invisible Children and where donations go to as well as what their organization is about AND ways to buy Tshirts and such here is their website:
http://www.invisiblechildren.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/about.html

Take action- With all my love- Cam