Today, Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent is the forty days leading up to Easter.
It is a time where Christians prepare themselves through fasting and prayer as Jesus fasted before he was crucified, buried, and resurrected. It is a time to think about the work God is doing in your life. It is a time to reflect on the lives we live.
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There are over 145 million orphans in the world. Over 2 million more are orphaned each year because of HIV/AIDS.
You read those numbers and you can’t help but be taken back. And that’s where it usually ends. Sure you may even think that there’s something you can do about it, but what have you done?
Think about this. Each of those 145 million orphans have a name. They have a face. They have a story. They are real children. Perhaps it’s those very statistics that shock us also de-humanize these orphans. They get lost in the numbers.
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