I love Jason Evans' blog from yesterday - particularly the statement "shut up and be something." It's so weird to think that there's this war going on on in a land far away and that there are innocent people just like us who are faced with such aggression. I heard an interview with a guy about to catch a train in one London station, when questioned about the war: "it's sad people have to die, but life must go on" as though his life is what life is about and those people the other side of the globe just don't matter. I get easily upset by things like that.

{Lord, bring good out of this tragedy of war. Make us more real and less selfish. Help us to see the Iraq as groups of innocent people who want peace, not as some far off entity.}