Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell 200,000 Missing People? The United Nations refugee agency is reporting their concern that 200,000 refugees from Rwanda and Burundi are missing. With the arrival of at least a temporary peace refugees are returning home and the United Nations is reporting 200,000 missing people and are fearing genocide. Most of the missing are women and children. United States officials based in Rwanda are saying the original United Nations refugee count was highly inflated and that they think most of the refugees have been accounted for. The United Nations officials are insisting their count is correct and these people are not around anymore and they want to know where they are. Did someone kill them? If so, who? We live in a dangerous world. 200,000 people is the population of a good size city. Could it really be that they did exist and something unspeakably horrible has happened to them? The very idea is not a pleasant one to entertain. What is it with people? Why and how can we do these things to ourselves? Just because someone looks a little different, talks differently, dresses differently, has another religion or tribal name does not even begin to produce any reason for the indifferent cruelty we perpetrate on each other. I wonder if our heavenly father ever has a good day? Jesus assures us that not even a small bird goes unattended by His Father’s notice. He certainly did not miss noting what happened to 200,000 people. I wish to assure you today that you are very important to God. He does watch over your comings and goings today and is interested that you prosper and do well. The human problem is not the absence of a caring heavenly father it is the presence of people who somehow cannot seem to grasp the concept that our lives grow richer and fuller when we take care of and give to others. I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is hrb1@tiac.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives