“Little boy in Aleppo a vivid reminder of war’s horror”

“Little boy in Aleppo a vivid reminder of war’s horror”

 

2008 Aleppo by night
Aleppo, as it appeared in 2008  (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Pray — and, if you can, work — for an end to this kind of thing:

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/17/world/syria-little-boy-airstrike-victim/index.html

 

We did not leave our Father’s presence and come to Earth in order to impose such horror on each other.

 

I’m writing only a few hundred yards from the Oslo City Hall, where, each year, the Nobel Peace Prize is handed out.  It has been given to some very good people, and to some who were utterly unworthy of it.  However, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

 

Pray for peace, justice, and freedom for all.

 

Posted from Oslo, Norway

 

 


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