Monday, 19 October 2009
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True Reliance After the Slum Fire in Sao Paulo, Brazil
I just watched this heart wrenching photo essay while looking for a job. Constructive, I know. I've always been touched by photography. There's just something so fascinating about it. You can capture someone's essence in one frame. One frame is a fraction of a second in someone's life, but it's there for all time. It shows the resilience, frailty, or depth of any emotion for anyone, anywhere on the planet.
It's been a while since a photograph has truly left an imprint on me like this. After the Fire, a photo essay by Louise Chin and Ignacio Aronovich, looks at the devastation and faith that occurred in Brazil. It's haunting to see the devastation. When we Americans see our houses burn we know we have insurance. We have security. We have friends and family to lean on. These subject's lives have been ravaged by the fire. They weren't endowed with money, they weren't insured and safe; they were in the slums where Jesus is their only savior.
It's alarming to see how wide spread the fire was. One of the pictures is from a height and you can see how vast the fire was. Everything was cleared out. There is more ash then there are people. There's a child who is barefoot in the wreckage. Despite this devastation and lacking, there are many bright spots.
The two women, who sit among the wreckage, find comfort in the Bible. Seeing this photo essay you know that these people truly have nothing...except the reliance on Jesus. One fire victim says that there is only God amongst the homeless children and burned slums. You see the readiness to rebuild. The unknown strength that has arisen,
Watching this photo essay has truly reminded me how blessed I am. I've been reminded how our laziness and blame should be forgotten when things aren't going our way. When we think it has all gone wrong, we need to remember---like these fire victims---that He is with us. Homelessness may be one of the hardest tests anyone will ever have to face, but He is there. Everytime!
What do you think of this photo essay? Have you truly relied on Jesus like they have?
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Not sure what you are saying here? My first thought is that we need first to think of how we need to help these people. Not in watching them suffer? And making some kind of spiritual thing of that? If you really feel blessed, then you will give all to them? Blessings are to squander not to hoard. Jesus is with them, in and through us, and it is for us to be blessed by giving to them not by this kind of comment.