Abigail Disney joins Darfur Fast for Life
I am fasting because I am hungry for solidarity. I have seen enough starving children, enough refugee camps and enough women whose eyes have the impervious look of those who have been forced to satisfy the sadistic urges of their enemies, enemies they often didn’t even know they had. I have not been to Darfur, or to the camps in Chad and Sudan, but I have seen to imagine the hell they are living in. And yet as an American, it is still so easy to turn away especially with so much else to occupy my mind and heart. I find it easy to let my attention rest on the sparkly bits of glitter that pass for popular culture here, and the helter-skelter of my busy life, not to mention the warm embrace of my family and friends. But I can’t un-know that my brothers and sisters are out there under the beating sun hungry and frightened and wondering who in the world will care enough to help them make it right. I don’t want to slouch into letting that be ok with me. So I am hungry for solidarity. For 30 days I will do a refugee ration fast. I know that I alone can’t make “the” difference with or without my fast, but I do know that if I can act with love and make myself a part of a difference, and I hope to live that example for my family, friends and colleagues.
— Abigail Disney
Dear Abigail
You put into words so clearly how I feel. Thank you.
Liz
1Dear Abigail,
The ideas in your blog made me think I hadn’t thought about the mothers and daughters not preparing food together, and the mothers unable to teach that part of their culture. It came to me, though, that the mothers and daughters are teaching each other even more important lessons: those of grace under horror and the will to live.
Our gifts of Love certainly are making a difference. Just knowing someone — many someones — care(s) about their suffering has to be a comfort. And as you say, acts of Love shift the world.
Thank You.
2Love,
Sun~Rose