So since yesterday, April 24th, was Easter, but at 7p I started my first of 25 hours of silence.
So why am I going silent for 25 hours of silence? Well if you have been reading my blog, you will know I am very active with an organization called Invisible Children.
I going silent because of a man whose name is Joseph Kony. He is abducting children and mutilating people. He is forcing the children to become child soldiers and have raping them. He has been doing these atrocities for 25 years. So there's that 25 again, silent for 25 hours for the 25 years this war has been going on.
We, the 1 million plus people participating, are also raising money for the Protection Plan. This Protection Plan is to build radio towers in the isolated villages in Congo, so they have a way to contact other villages of the LRA's location. They will also build a rehabilitation center for these children who were child soldiers and they don't want to go straight home because of the great atrocities they have seen. They are also wanting to put together search and rescue team. So when these children leave the LRA they are someone hundreds of miles away from their homes and this is a way for the teams to find their families.
So I wanted to tell you how my 25 hours have been going so far.... and I am going to be doing this by what I have written in my journal as the day has gone on, just cause you are most likely going to be getting the feeling I was feeling when all of that was happening. And maybe some stories I didn't record, I hope you enjoy it.
"about 10 minutes into my "25" & I can tell its gonna be hard. But I am doing not to bring glory to myself to be (ham check out how much I rock for doing this). Not doing this for the gloryof IC even though they are doing a great job. I am doing this to bring attention to those in Congo who are basically trapped by the LRA and have no war of communicating for help. Lord help me to keep that as a main focus than to myself.
Lord, I was wondering is what the LRA doing to the child soldiers, trafficking? I know it would be when because they doing things against ttheir will. LORD BE WITH THEM."
"I can honestly tell you that I am not gonna know how it really feels to not have any communication but I pray that You (GOD) would igive me some sense of how they feel."
"Right now it's not as bad as what I expected it to be except it makes me wonder. If I were more popular would it make more a difference, probably.
I mean I'm not saying that I want more friends, it'd be nice... maybe... LOL I'm not honestly sure to know what it would mean to know everyone. But I'm definitely OK with that cause I'm not that kind of person to have or mingle with a large group.
God, I pray that you would be with me the next eight hours.
Right now I feel like I would slightly know what it would feel to not have connection with the world. Sitting here in Down Under at Johnson County Community College. I can't talk to people and most of the time I wouldn't unless I knew them and there is no cell service unless I go outside or upstairs. I do feel isolated if an emergency were to happen and only I knew about it. It would be very hard to get people's attention unless I threw things at them, or ran over to tell them on paper. And wonder if they would respond or thought I was a crazy person and ignore me. then I could imagine the cycle going and by the time I'd get to someone that believed me it might be too late. I wish I could ask Laren if that's how they feel. And them I wonder that as soon as I go upstairs I'll get overwhelming texts and get excited that I would be able to tell people a little bit easier about what happened and what is happeneind and what is going to happen.
I bet the Congolese people are estatic when they get a radio tower. Maybe even at first they wont know exactly what to do with this new thing.
Talking, communications, television, the internet, it's all something we in America definitely take advantage of if we have that ability there were should use it for good rather than spreading lies or gossipping. We should use it to spread awareness about the atrocities of the world."
Welll this all that happened in my journal. :) But we also had an Invisible Children Club meeting and it was very very interesting. Cause well I couldn't talk but other people were because they are kind of new and they didn't know about it. So I was able to tell them about it. I love it!
This was my day.... it may be boring, but it has made a big difference in my life and the lives of those in congo. :) since we raised over $1 million.
About to break my silence in 2 and a half hours! You can learn more at Invisible Children's Website and watch a livestream that's going on right now. Maybe watch some Plain White T's, Mumford and Sons, David Archuleta and others. :)
