I came across this story and it grabbed me hard. It was a reminder of the sadness in the world. I didn't get the name of the reporter or spokesman for this story..but this is what he said prior to sharing the news article.."They said the birds refused to sing and the thermometer fell suddenly..as if God himself had his breath stolen away. No one there dared speak aloud..as much in shame as in sorrow."
Three mass graves discovered in the sub district of Dubiz in Kirkuk. “The graves are holding remnants of children from both Chamchamal and Garmyan areas”. Sayd Fazil Amin the head of KRG martyrs office in Kirkuk told ASO, these kids were taken into captivity during 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds. Genocide against the Kurds in the 1980s. Lost were over 200,000 lives of innocent Kurds.
These kinds of events always question my faith in man..and God. Why do these kinds of things happen? Why would kids have to suffer like this? It's so disheartening that we have to periodically look over our shoulders to make sure all our family is still by us. Again, nothing hits me more than hearing or seeing a child suffer.
I can't imagine their last thoughts before and during their deaths. Were they scared..or still thinking about being kids? Were they still dreaming of ice cream and monkey bars? Birthday cakes? The future of the afternoon? Or had their innocence been taken along with their lives..buried in the cold earth so long ago? These fates seem too cruel even for God to allow. Or are the tragic young born again when the world's not looking?
I want to believe so badly..in a truth beyond on our own..hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless precession of souls..in what cannot and will not be destroyed..I want to believe we are unaware of God's eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see His truth. That which is born still lives and cannot be buried in the cold earth, but only waits to be born again at God's order. Where in ancient starlight we lay in rest.
Got a little religious there. I had to find the right words as they pertain to God. I think I found them and found my inner thoughts. I want to believe..
Peace out HALE'S ANGELS!
This really touched my heart when I read this. I totally agree that the thought of something so cruel happening to a child is so aweful that I can't even wrap my mind around it. If there is a reason for everything and God has a plan for everyone then what was his plan for those children? Why bring them into life just to take it away while they are so young and haven't truly lived life? Was it to show the cruelty that there is in the world and to wake people up so that these types of things don't happen? I will never understand why God would allow anything so horrible to happen to such sweet children. I can't even imagine anything happening like that to my child. It makes me cry now just thinking of it.
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