A Curious Girl: We are powerful beyond measure

My exam period so far has been scarily good. Chemistry yesterday was much better than I thought it would be, and Biology today also went well, I wrote loads for an essay on DNA and point mutation. Tricia (James's Mum) has been praying for me (hmm, have I made Ian think, again?) and I do really think that God has helped me :) I've been feeling quite sane during exams...

Yesterday I wrote an essay for General Studies which made me think. I had to evaluate the view that technology has caused more problems than it has solved and we'd be better without it. Actually I remember reading in The Economist that technology has even improved very poor people's lives. So... hah! :) But my conclusion was that technology is not the problem, the problem is human selfishness and capitalism. The trouble was, I might as well have written 'I am a hypocrite' five hundred times. We're such lucky people, elsewhere in the world people are dying because of debt and wrong trading rules. I think, if we all did something, poverty would not exist. But it still does.

I told Clive that I really want to do something about this injustice and he basically told me that I couldn't do anything. But this is untrue. I read a great quote -

'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.' Nelson Mandela

And it's true!! It's easy to say that we can't do anything. But how much courage does it take to know that we can do something and to actually do it? 'Ordinary' people can make a lot of difference, eg. James Maudsley (got put in prison in Burma for protesting for human rights), Mother Teresa (you must have heard of her :) ), George Muller (ran an orphanage), Gladys Aylward (a parlour maid who raised enough money to become a missionary in China), Martin Luther King (just think of his influence), and Jesus Christ (small scale travelling preacher in 1st century Palestine ;) ). It's not true that we can't do anything. But I think it is true that we can't do anything without sacrificing something. That's a frightening thought... very frightening, in some ways. But I guess it's all part of WWJD...

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