Welcome to the start of New Year. My resolution is to write something meaningful each day on this blog. Not sure it will be world shattering, but if it gives you pause to think, then I'll be happy.
With our local church about to send off a team to Cambodia, I've been reading "The Road of Lost Innocence", by Somaly Man.
Somaly was left orphaned during the Pol Pot era in Cambodia and sold into the sex slave industry.
I'm yet to finish the book, but one thing she highlights as she was cared for by a variety of family and non-family members is that Cambodian society taught you never to share your feelings.
With anyone. If you shared your feelings, this made you vulnerable to attack and abuse. In the Pol Pot era, keeping silent about what you had seen or heard was your best defence.
Its true of course - keeping quiet does 'protect' you, but what a diminished life that would lead to.
One of the biggest problems today in the Cambodian Church is that people still do not trust each other.
This year - find someone you can trust to share your life and thoughts with.
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