The Boy with the Brown Eyes

 

 

Do you ever feel like there is just too much global need and become numb to it all? Ashley Dickens, a gifted writer and member of HOPE’s staff, brings us into the horror of a story in India, but leads us to hope. You don’t want to miss reading her words of challenge and encouragement.


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Guest post by Ashley Dickens


I couldn’t tear my eyes away.

I have subscribed to all the usual suspects on Twitter, CNN and BBC and every “breaking news” feed that I could find. A wealth of information at my fingertips, one mindless click away. Daily, I scroll through, growing progressively more numb with each sensational headline. We live in a world where genocide and car bombs are commonplace, where little girls are stolen into tangled jungles and the whole world cries bring them back from the comfort of our air conditioned living rooms. Hunger gnaws, hope wanes, poverty crushes and the whole aching world groans under the suffocating weight of sin. I confess that on far too many days, I turn away. I cannot feel it all.

The more information that I have at my leisurely disposal, the less I am prone to read it. But yesterday, I saw this headline and frozen, I couldn’t look away. Not from him. “’Invisible’ in India: The story of a disabled boy tied to Mumbai bus stop.”

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