Mourning

This week's experiment is on mourning. I guess I've never really had to mourn very much in my life. I've not really lost anyone that close to me. Maybe a grandfather, but he was older and had been ill for a long time, so it was expected. It's a little harder for me to get my head around mourning than the idea of poverty, because poverty is based in things that are material. I can fix poverty if I have the money and resources, but no matter what I do people will still need to mourn.

One of the projects I chose for this week is to write a letter to a soldier serving. I would say that seeing your friends die needless deaths while being so far away from everyone and everything thing you know and love would give you very legitimate cause for to mourn. I hand wrote a letter today to an Army medic who serves on the front lines. There is a website called www.anysoldier.com where you can get addresses of soldier and write to them and send them care packages. I found one that hasn't been contacted very much and wrote her a letter about Kate and I and just told her that we are proud of her and care for her and are praying for her safety and quick return home.

I haven't really gotten my head around this week's topic yet, so I probably need to pray more about it tomorrow and see where it takes me.

Andy