What do we miss by taking things for granted?

Last night Jero, Nicholas and David and I sat around the table. The TV was off and we just were a family together - talking. How many families do that each night - we certainly don't do it every night but when we do it is special but then it occurred to me when I was laughing full out over one of Nic's dry comments that maybe I take it all too much for granted. I don't really appreciate it all - right in the moment. It's almost like I need to stop and step out of myself and appreciate it all and then get back in and enjoy - really enjoy. Nic's 10 and so how long will it be before he doesn't want to 'be' with us. I'm actually hoping the answer is never. Not that I don't want him to live his own life - but more that he will always want us to be part of it.

If I put that into the context of children in slavery - their parents never got to enjoy them or for their children to enjoy their parents. That makes me think even more that I must appreciate what I have got and do what I can to ensure children (or even just one child) who are living a life of poverty (spiritual, physical, mental) get that opportunity to appreciate what God has given us - LIFE.

Facts or feelings `

The question on my mind is - does it take facts to make people do something about child slavery and absue or do they need to be emotionally impacted? What is is that will get people up out of their seats and demanding that this practise be stopped!

Does the fact that 11 million children are currently in slavery make you do something or do you need to consider how you would feel if it was your child? Emotion versus fact?

Or is it necessary to have both?

What is it that will drive us to challenge the status quo - to challenge the fact that this is a huge profitable industry? Do we need to bring it to our front door before we do something about it? How do we make it real so that we can no longer push it under the carpet?

Growing up I used to wonder why I wasn't really passionate about anything much. I didn't do protest marches, I wasn't really strongly for or against anything - in many ways I just was there but not there in the world. It's almost like I needed to just be and that my 'time' for being passionate would come - and how has it come. Sometimes it takes me by surprise how strongly I feel about things - the very thought of children dying for want of food, clean water or basic medicine.

The very thought of young girls being abused for profit .... the list goes on. Maybe I needed to be a mother to actually get it. If you feel like gettting passionate about something in life then child trafficking / child slavery (forget the pc bonded labour words - it is slavery) then check out this link.

What I will say is don't go from being oblivious to be paralysed - we must do something about this! http://www.callandresponse.com/

Meanderings of Camp Mother: So this is it....

So this is it....

I'm going to be a blogger! Not sure really what that means but all I know is that I want to learn ... learn about this age where you can say anything and read anything - to be out there in cyber space engaging with millions who you may never literally meet but who you can know (or maybe not know?)