Can you hear them crying?

(ES)

Crying in children is a response to pain, fear, sadness, frustration, confusion, anger, inability to express their feelings appropriately. In babies, it becomes a powerful and effective way to get attention from their parents. When we hear our children crying at night, we wake up and rush to comfort them, to ease their pain or fear. The fear of imaginary monsters that wake them up in the midst of darkness, heart pounding, desperately seeking a few soothing words to the ear, a hug to give them security that let them having sweet dreams again.

In the global world we live in, we often see that the action in some remote part of the planet has a reaction to thousands of miles, as if the Law of Action and Reaction ruled our destinies, and accelerating the effect of opposing forces that propagate through space in the media. That is the explanation we received when a Protestant pastor from Gainesville (FL) burns a copy of Quran and cause the death of 12 people in Afghanistan during protests against this action. So we are also told how a high-risk lending transactions in the mortgage market in the U.S. cause a global economic crisis. The same explanation as a devastating fires in Russia have led to escalating prices of basic food to famine condemn millions of people on other continents. Similarly, facing natural disasters anywhere in the world, almost immediately, international humanitarian aid is organized.

Effects that persist and effects that expire. Immediate reaction and delayed reaction. Physical laws do not explain why human being does not venture into the darkness that is the crisis of values ​​in this global world and is delivered without further ado to give comfort to the millions of children who suffer in silence, facing daily real monsters such as hunger, abuse, rape, lack of opportunities, loneliness, labor exploitation, street violence, HIV, sexual exploitation or uprooting.

Are not our children? Does the globalization and its consequences only affect them in the negative? Can you hear the crying of the girls raped in Haiti or Congo or Darfur? Can you hear the crying of the girls sold and prostituted? Can you hear the crying of child soldiers? Can you hear the crying of children orphaned by HIV? Can you hear the crying of street children? Can you hear the crying of children working in slavery? Can you hear the crying of children who can not go to school? Can you hear the crying of millions of children who now go to bed with empty stomach?

Are not our children?

Hopefully we will wake up in this dark night we live to give comfort to the millions of children who cry, to ease their suffering and to return them their lost dreams.