Warning:

Don't read THIS ARTICLE unless you are ready to pray; otherwise there's no reason to expose yourself to the crap (understatement) that goes on in the world.

I have a Congolese client.

These things are happening as you are reading this. It's desturbing and overwhelming. It's too much to wrap your brain and heart around. It's unreal. It's easier to forget about it and go on with our cushy safe lives and pretend that fellow human beings aren't suffering the worst atrocities.

Think of how you might feel towards the criminals and what kind of people they must be. And think also that given the right circumstances, you are not above doing such things yourself... full of sin and darkness without Jesus.

And think about the women and their pain. And if sovereign God didn't place you here in cozy America, you could be among them.

It's a place far away and the brutality and chaos and disregard for the value of human life can easily make us feel superior or even more human then they are.... but they are just as human as us... we are not above such things... save for the GRACE of God and the BLOOD of Jesus.

Pray for them... all of them. The victims and the torturers. They need Jesus SO much.