Have you seen this movie?  I highly recommend it!  It is NOT a movie for kids.  I watched this last night or should I say early this morning.  I cried myself to sleep.  I guess it may not have that effect  on everyone who watches it, but it had it on me.  I just finished reading the book Where Children Cry and the movie just added to the visual images I was already having of what happened during the Liberian Civil War.  Although the movie takes place in Sierra Leone, they do speak of Liberia which is the neighboring country south east of Sierra Leone.

Rebel groups did the same thing in Liberia.  Complete blood shed!  At the end of the movie they write that there are still over 200,000 soldier children in Africa.  My heart goes out to these children!  They are brain washed and completely loose their childhood innocence.  It is not only the child soldier that looses his innocence, but also the child who has seen and been a part of the war!  So much taken away, so much lost, so much to never be returned!  I can not even imagine!

But through it all, I must trust that God has and continues to protect my boys' hearts!  God can heal those deep wounds that they have in the pit of their very being.  Wounds of abandonment, wounds of death, wounds of starvation, wounds of a lost childhood! 

Psalm 55 speaks of casting your burdens upon the Lord:

My heart is in anguish within me,

And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Fear and trembling come upon me;

And horror has overwhelmed me.

And I said, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove!

I would fly away and be at rest.....

Cast your burden upon the Lord, and

He will sustain you;

He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

But Thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of destruction;

Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in Thee. (4-6, 22-23)

I must trust that God has cast away all of their burdens.  I must trust that He has given them wings like a dove so that their internal being is free from all that has happened.  God is so big!  He can dig deep into our inner souls and heal us from the deepest wounds.  His love is so amazing.  He longs for us to cast our burdens upon Him so that He may heal us!  I pray that my boys understand the power of prayer and that they are down on their knees thanking God for His amazing love.  I know God's power is great and His healing is an amazing thing.  "I will put my trust in Him," (Hebrews 2:13).  For it is not my burden to carry, nor my boys.  We are to lay all our burdens at the foot of the cross and let our Savior take them.  I pray that God has already healed my boys from their deep wounds.  I pray that you, too, will cast your burdens upon Christ and receive His many blessings.