I can't change the world. I can't stop crime, violence, hunger, pain, and all the evil that men do. I can't keep the children safe, nor can I save those who seem determined to keep on the same path they are headed, bent on destroying themselves and others. My advice is just that...advice! An opinion of one. When all is said and done, I am helpless against all this wickedness in the world. I can do nothing! And this makes me so sad!
So, can someone please tell me HOW to stop hurting for these people? How do I turn my head and go on with my own life when people are suffering? How can it not affect us and make us depressed beyond words?
There is no human on earth who can make this go away. I can only ask my Heavenly Father to help me each day to find some good in a few things. I can only pray for strength to go on and pray that He will intervene in the lives of these people...that He will heal them, protect them and care for their needs.
After watching a segment of 60 MINUTES last night, I am asking myself a question, 'Has the whole world gone mad?" I was horrified by the broadcast. I saw teen-aged boys, beating a poor homeless man with a baseball bat. I heard his tortured cries, and listened to the interview of another man who is in prison now for the beating death of another homeless man. There was no remorse on his face. Just emptiness as he told why he and his friend did this horrible thing. He said it gave him a rush, a feeling of extreme power, to beat someone who was helpless and weaker than himself. He said his friends and he were in the woods, smoking pot and they came upon a homeless man lying asleep. They began to kick him and hit him with sticks, while he begged them to stop. They went away for a few minutes, then came back and beat him some more, then stopped, then came back and beat him again. He said his friend beat the man in the head with a two-by-four with a nail in it. His reason for doing this? Entertainment!
My God! My God! How can a person who is human do this to anything living, be it man or animal?
According to the newscast, this has become one of the top sports for teenagers. It is called Bum Hunting or Bum Bashing. One man is making videos of homeless people being beaten and of them beating one another. They pay them in Alcohol. They get them drunk, then have them do horrible things. It is so sickening. The movies are called 'Bum Fights" and they are selling by the millions. According to police all these attacks on the homeless people have stemmed from the kids watching these videos.
They interviewed the man responsible for making and distributing these movies, and he just grinned about it. Called it entertainment! He has a website and sells the videos from the internet, bumfight.com. I can't understand how people like this are allowed to continue doing this. Why can't he be stopped? What can I do? What can we do? Once more, I find no answer within my mind.
Evil is out there. Each day it gets harder and harder to love, to trust and to forgive. And almost impossible to continue living, in a world gone mad.
Even my hair hurts! 
A good sign that Fall has 'fallen' here in the valley and I think it fell on me. I love this time of year, but it kills my sinuses. The temps are mild and the sun is shining and the leaves are just starting to change color. I can't wait till they peak so I can take some photos of the mountanis. I am hoping to get a new camera for my birthday. {hint to Hubby in case he reads this post 
) I have seen so many lovely photos posted here on the Stream and if anyone can recommend a good camera to buy, let me know. I have a digital camera now, but it doesn't take good photos. It only has a 2x zoom and I love to do closeups...like bug's eyes and bee stingers and gnats at ten yards away...that kind of zoom. 
Well, I'm off to the medecine cabinet now. Hope Y'all have a good evening.
Love Ya 
