CCCL/St. Jude in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Today in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
We have to heal our wounded world.
The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction
we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment…
— Michael Jackson
Today, while volunteering at the Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon/St. Jude in Beirut, the children and I tried to repair the wounded world above.
“Lebanon is broken,” one of the girls cried–unaware of the deeper resonance of her words, as she went to write them on the board…
While the kids and I were busy studying the globe, Syrian shells were striking a number of Lebanese border towns up north. If only repairing the world was as easy as piecing together a puzzle…
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