Today I had just come back from a 90-minute swim at the local gym, and I turned on my computer and began browsing. By mere chance, a misplaced click opened Firefox's "Latest Headlines", which I was just about to react to and close, when my eye caught the phrase "Iraqi blogs" at the very bottom. Though the current Iraq situation is one of the present world's controversies, I usually prefer not to even think of negative situations I feel I can't influence in any way. Today, I think changed my mind.
After browsing through a couple of Iraqi blogs, I sort of skimmed through another one (the third one, I think...) and, still just mindlessly browsing, decided to enter the 15-year old girl's blog. She calls herself Sunshine. I read some of the posts, and them some more... and then some more. And after about 30 min of reading, I realized how different our lives were (hers and mine). She and her family don't feel safe where they live. They don't. Cars explode on the sidestreets, gunfire suddenly erupts out of nowhere, and young, healthy people who were just minding their own business die every day. And everyone can just... suddenly die at any time. Not very nice, in my opinion.
So I did what she asked her readers to do: pray for her. I sincerely prayed for her, and then I wrote her a comment. I truly hope she, her family, and all of Iraq becomes safe again before soon.
Please God, give them a safe and peaceful life.
OOPS, almost forgot - this is the link to her blog: http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/
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