The Circuit

The circuit - a place of training, of sweating, of persistence. Step after step, your feet pound out the steady pace of getting the task done. Sweat drips in your eyes, the pain and accomplishment spurs you on - and then at the end, you arrive and realise - you have finished.

* today's writing exercise

Obedience

A long obedience in the same direction. Not an original phrase, but one I have turned over in my head many many times. Obedience. Laying down one's life. Serving the greatest cause and the most wonderful King of all times. And yet, a friend. It takes your breath away.

Kick-starting my blog again... perhaps

One month of holidays.....

One badly neglected blog.....

Perhaps one is a solution to the other?

In an attempt to kick-start this blog again, I shall be posting relatively random things. Don't read too much into them. They are merely a response to random words generated at a 'writing inspiration' site that my friend told me about. It gives you one word a day and you free-write for 60 seconds. Sounds like a good holiday project to me.

The greatest moral issue of our time?

Tim Costello was quoted in The Australian today, criticizing Tony Abbott’s stance on the ETS and was reported to have said from Copenhagen, "Tony Abbot is out on his own, there are 194 countries here and they all see it as the greatest moral issue of our time. Tony Abbott is singing solo". Full article here: http://tinyurl.com/yc5nxre

Greatest moral issue of our time.....really Mr Costello?

The greatest moral issue isn’t the thousands of children dying each day from preventable diseases?
It’s not the tens of thousands of children being aborted every day?
It’s not the internal displacement, civil war and humanitarian crisis’ in places like Sudan, the DR Congo or Zimbabwe?
It’s not the 2-4 million people who are victims of human trafficking every year?

I would have hoped that Mr Costello, as the CEO of an aid organisation, would have tempered his comments somewhat. Yes, the wanton waste and destruction of our environment, of which we have been charged with stewarding, is a serious issue. EQUALLY so however is the way we treat our fellow man.

Imagine if the same the time, energy, finance, political will and media exposure which is currently afforded the Copenhagen conference, was given to help stop human trafficking, or simply to provide clean drinking water to the world?

If 194 countries see the greatest moral issue of our time as cutting carbon emissions, then there is little wonder that human trafficking still exists today.