PeaceKeeper Holiday Party: Hope
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Yay!
Today is our annual PeaceKeeper Holiday party. We will be bowling again this year and we had a great time last year so this year promises to be just as fun. I’ll try to post some pictures tomorrow.
I am making the unofficial theme of this party “Hope”.
Its important to remind ourselves when we work so hard to improve the lives of others that life can have meaning and worthwile. So much of the issues that surround our activism, like sex trafficking, can give the feeling of hopelessness. We have to make sure not only do we remind ourselves to keep working to make the world better for everyone, but we have to make sure that we see the hope in life.
A fire has to have different parts to keep it going, different fuels. Certainly knowing the wrongs that happen in life is one of the fuels, say the wood that is burning. Fires also need air to keep going, and enjoying our lives and rememebring what it is taken away from others is the air that keeps our fires to end exploitation, sex trafficking, slavery and the like burning.
Fires change what is burned and usually for the worse. Our fire however is one that is working to change things for the better. We want to change the world to one where all can live their lives without violence, abuse, unessesary pain and suffering.
So here’s to hope!
