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| LOVE is
patient and kind;
LOVE is not
jealous or boastful;
it is not
arrogant or rude.
LOVE does not
insist on its own way;
it is not
irritable or resentful;
it does not
rejoice at wrong,
but rejoices
in the right.
LOVE bears all
things, believes all things,
hopes all
things, endures all things.
LOVE never
ends …
So faith,
hope, love abide, these three,
but the
greatest of these
is LOVE.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 13
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| deliver me
i'm writing this verse for the people that need a reason to try.
teaching their seeds, they're not feeding nor eating: season is dry.
breathing is hard, but it's so easy to die. another sick son?
kill the pain and bury him alive. it's a barbarian life.
hopeless fathers become thieves, and killing for money carrying knives.
he was drunk when he hit her, liquor is scaring his wife.
drunk when he hit her, now he just buries his wife.
CNN doesn't reach this ghetto, BBC doesn't see this ghetto.
who could relieve this ghetto??
teach this fellow?? reach this fellow??
Prevent suicide before he reaches for his stiletto?
I write for the boy who's stuck in the world of anger and pain.
Saw his father shot in the back, the blood in the rain.
Mother is crying, both of his brothers is slain.
Asking, "Why are we fighting?!", hatred inside of his vein.
Killing every individual trying to step in his way:
Encounters a tank, looks away, points and he sprays.
Stray, digs in his brain. Pain. Pictures the daddy laying in rain.
Swaying, as he falls to the ground he's saying:
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we are living in war zone today, ladies and gentlemen.
babies and relatives, age is irrelevant.
cuz guns kill, and guts spill. but we don't dismantle nothing,
cuz when we don't see it: it's cool, so we push the channel button.
click.
jessica simpson said what?! yo what a dummy.
go to mtv, i wanna see celebrities throw away money.
it's kinda funny cuz refugees that are running,
from gunning soldiers who's orders are to shoot and not to miss kids.
i guess they're busy, with living and dealing with killing
and hiding in buildings but it just sucks: they will miss cribs.
i feel you get my gist, some people might get pissed,
they come to listen but instead get sent on guilty trips.
i'm not the villain kids.
i'm just revealing kids getting shot in the back
of the head because of where they live.
these are my brothers man, these are your sisters girls,
pray that they die in their sleep, so they could kiss this world -
goodbye, fly to a place. to a face, an embrace...
for the fist time breathe, cuz they're not being chased.
this is the real life, it's not the media. blood is being spilled even when you turn your tv off. -lyricks www.myspace.com/teamlyricks www.lyricks.org | | |
| "there is enough on earth for everybody's need, but not for everyone's greed."
-Mahatma Gandhi Did you know that 29,000 children die everyday from preventable diseases such as malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infections? and that Malnutrition is associated with over half of those deaths?
or that in developing countries, one child in 10 dies before his fifth birthday? By comparison, in the U.S. one child in 165 will die before turning five years old.
-In the last 50 years, 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation. That's three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the entire 20th century.
-The wealthiest fifth of the world's people consume an astonishing 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consume 1 percent.
- Of the 6.39 billion people in today's world, 1.2 billion live on less than $1 per day.
Which is the reason for..the 30 Hour Famine- through World Vision. [ www.30hourfamine.org ]
My youth group, along with Ken Kim's church youth group will be participating in this event to raise money for the cause. to save the lives of children. The money raised in this event will go to help nearly 100 countries worldwide, but mainly to:
Malawi, because of a new food security project Darfur, Sudan because of the refugee crisis Kenya, because of the Severe famine
Anyways, I am writing this, to inform and to ask for your help!
Me, along with the 2 youth groups will not be eatin for 30 hours, to see what it is like to not have food to eat, and to open our eyes to how lucky we are, how blessed we are to have been born here.
$30 will provide for a child's needs for a month..they live on $1 a day!!
So if you are willing, to donate even a dollar, it'll make a difference. So please help! help! donate! contact me
 sorry so long, but one more thing.....
I duno if you guys knew..but
Ten years ago, more than 1.8 million Ugandans were forced from their homes to overcrowded camps which now face desperate conditions. There is lack of food and water, alcoholism, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, inadequate sanitation and lack of education.Displace Me
Displace Me is the nationwide event giving Americans the chance to respond. It begins on April 28th around noon and will end the morning of the 29th. This overnight gathering will send a bold statement to the US government that Americans care about ending the suffering of millions living in Uganda's displaced camps. We are demanding our government's support of the peace talks, which will allow the Acholi people to go back to their land and the abducted children to be returned home. SO. www.invisiblechildren.com/themovement/displaceme
register--just name n address/#
and join me!
"I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something."
-Hellen Keller [info. & facts from worldvision.org & invisiblechildren.com] | | |
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