Invisible

Each Sunday is different.  Some Sunday’s are pretty relaxed and chill, but there are other Sunday’s (like today) where it is complete ‘Pandemonium’.  Jenna and I agreed to go with one of the youth, Alex, to her school today because they were showing the documentary ‘Invisible Children‘.  The pandemonium that broke out today was one of internal disturbance.  

It’s so easy to get caught up in short-ranged vision and just focus on what is closely surrounding us.  I wonder what it must be like to go through life and feel invisible; to feel hopeless.  

I was driving home tonight and heard the voice of a teenage girl on the radio say, “I was raped last night…”.  The girl proceeded to tell some guy on a radio show her story of being raped. The next caller was a teenaged guy who is addicted to meth.  Then the commercial voice came on and this is where I began to feel really disturbed, “the views and opinions given are not from a licensed counselor…”

My heart broke listening to these youth who feel so completely invisible and hopeless that the only place they have to turn is some guy on the radio who is not even a counselor.  This disturbs me and haunts me.  We need to stand and fight and take back the youth of America.  Why is Christianity so tainted that somehow the church has become the last place on earth where someone would seek out love and support?  Why has the trend in Christianity been to push away instead of embrace? 

I pray that God gives me strength and vision to reach the hopeless, broken, and invisible youth of Charlotte.  May I continue to be haunted and disturbed, and may the hopeless know the One True Hope; Jesus.