{"id":739,"date":"2007-01-06T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2007-01-06T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T00:03:00","slug":"for-she-who-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2007\/01\/06\/for-she-who-suffers\/","title":{"rendered":"for she who suffers"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a recent Women for Women<\/a> flyer:<\/p>\n

~80% of all refugees and displaced persons globally are women and children<\/p>\n

~Rape is used as a tool of genocide and weapon of war: 20K Bosnian women raped during the Balkan War; 500K Rwandese women raped during the ’94 genocide; 100K+ of Congolese women raped in the DRC war<\/p>\n

~70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor are women<\/p>\n

~90% of today’s war casualties are civilians, 75% of whom are women and children.<\/p>\n

These are each shocking statistics. As I sit here reading through each one and trying to wrap my head around the suffering contained in these few lines I am completely humbled by my own good fortune, and at the same time I am ANGRY that this is my world, our world, in which this is happening.<\/p>\n

On the advice of TanyaSue, last week I read Nectar in a Sieve<\/a>\"\"and I thought a lot about the protagonist, Rukmani, and the vicissitudes of economic uncertainty in India that routinely left her and her children with only a handful of rice to eat each day. She watched family members die from malnutrition as she struggled to eke out a quiet life under intolerably harsh circumstances. <\/p>\n

This book made me question: at what price do I enjoy this warm apartment that I sit in as I type on my laptop, pantry cupboards full, nearly every modern convenience at my fingertips. What right do I have to live in such privilege?<\/p>\n

Awhile back I read of a young man about my age who decided to live as simply as possible, that he could give more of his money to those that suffer. He had only two sets of clothing. He slept on a mat on the floor with a thin blanket. He gave away all of his possessions except for those necessary in his nonprofit work.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Are you tempted to abandon your comforts for the sake of another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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