I’ve often wondered what a child sees through their eyes as the terrible occurrences happen to them throughout their young lives. Many children who are born are left to die from starvation, countless types of abuses, diseases, wars, improper medicines, and no medical assistance, severe medical issues, idle parenting and numerous other reasons; and in my opinion they “suffer” and they do “remember” it too.
I’ve heard and read where people say little children don’t remember the things that happen when they’re young but I find this hard to believe because when a small child is being held in a parents arms and they’re suffering from starvation, abuse or a disease, I can see and sense their hurt and pain through their eyes. It’s a pain that I cannot describe as I look at their small faces with those sad eyes…its real pain.
I remember in my childhood things that happened and I’ve never forgotten them and it wasn’t a horrendous situation like most children in some countries suffer. It was the death of my grandmother and I “still” remember the hurt and pain to this day and I was very young. Yes, they suffer and feel pain from starving and needs, and when there’s no water to satisfy their thirst or being sick and no medicine to help them either.
In my opinion a need and a pain begins early in life and without the provisions the child will remember it because it was deep rooted and a desperate need; and it’s my belief that people should not allow anyone on this earth to starve or to suffer if there’s any way possible to prohibit it. It’s not what our Heavenly Father would want from countries that are flourishing and rich in many ways. In my opinion those who have should help to provide food, medicine and assistance to those who don’t have that’s the only human thing for any country to do. All their differences with a country should be waived and assistance provided.
In the Holy Bible, King James Version, and in the New Testament and in verse Matthew 6: 25 – 26, it tells people, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than the?”
The innocence of a child and those who are people suffering the world should remember the Bible’s, New Testament Verse Matthew 19: 14, where it says, “But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”
And in The Old Testament in Genesis Verse 44: 1 – 2, it tells people, “Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth, and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his corn money.”
Don’t you believe this is what God would expect any people’s from any flourishing and rich country to do…people should never allow the innocent and weak to die from the lack of food and other provisions.
A child who lives its life in a normal natural state may go on to never suffer from the hazards of a young childhood but there are millions of children and people who do suffer and who do know and see through their eyes their sufferings of starvation, hunger, pain, disease and terrible living conditions.
It’s my belief that every person on this earth should have feelings for their fellow-man and “no-one” should be forced to be without food, medicine, medical assistance, etc. as long as thriving countries have it to provide. A person’s life is valuable and “no-one” should suffer.
Barbara Kasey Smith wrote this article based on the Holy Bible, King James Version, and in the Old & New Testaments and in Verses as stated.