Libya May See Freedom – I need to pray for them

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Libya May See Freedom – I need to pray for them

So few of us understand in Canada and even the USA. It is a tragedy that is taking place right under our nose.

Well Libya is not that close to where you live… but all that happens there will greatly affect what you do in days to come.

Overnight the UN has voted in favour of allowing the world forces to act on a No-Fly Zone in and around Libya. France has stated that within hours they will be acting on this UN vote. Britain has stated that they also will join France in this action. I can imagine that the USA is only a moment or two away from standing up to the bully as well.

Did you catch that?

Two of the highly effective military powers, and perhaps the closest neighbors to Libya, are going to swoop in and clean up the mess that has been brewing in that little country.

I shudder when this kind of thing happens in my life.

I am just reading a very powerful book that is written by a friend of mine – actually edited my a friend of mine. It is a printing of all of his father’s letters to his mother from the time he entered into action in the Second World War in 1940. It is entitled “One Family’s War” by Rollie Bourassa. It is a great read… but heart rending as Clarence pours out his agony of being so far away from his wife Hazel and his two sons Rollie and Murray.

I cannot stop thinking of Rollie and what his family went through.

Then Libya and the most recent actions last night have shaken me again. More families are going to go through this again. What a horrible human tragedy… all because another egotistic man continues to inflict his horrific attitude on other humans.

When will the world finally stand up and not allow this kind of thing any longer.

This simple Blog posting will never stop a Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. People speaking out against Hitler did little either. But because no one would or could stop them before they had destroyed so many lives… they gained power and took more and more for themselves.

Recently as I have re-discovered Hitler and what he did … and how so many in the west had allowed him to do what he did… I am angry again.

I can certainly see why the UN has taken a stand in this way. I hope it is done well and fewer lives are lost. Maybe just the threat of foreign intervention will bring down Qaddafi’s air force with no bullets. Maybe they will surrender and stop.

For the people of Libya that desperately need freedom and a new way to live… I need them to know that we pray for them… support them and will do what we can to stop the monster that has destroyed so many.

Now how can a Christian Minister stand up for these people? They are not Christian! No – they perhaps are not… but they are fellow Human beings. And if my Christianity is worth anything at all… it needs to make me think, act and respond to help those that are hurting so terribly.

God help me to be aware!

Sheesh… I have to get to the Gym to work out these frustrations I have with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi,

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource
http://www.uregina.ca/news/newsreleases.php?release=689
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19libya.html?src=twrhp
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/One-Familys-War/Rollie-BOURASSA/e/9780889772212