So here’s my personal recommendation to everyone for the month of April just to shake things up a little and get you thinking outside the norm.

Go pick up “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah. This is the book Starbucks is promoing right now.

UNICEF tells us that there may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them; A 15-year-old soldier. He is one of the first to tell the story. This is a story of redemption and hope.

Then go rent “Blood Diamond.” The two go practically hand-in-hand and tell the story of the civil war in Sierra Leone.

I think you’ll walk away from these with a different way of thinking/seeing… Probably even shocked. And I think we will all come to the place of, “What can I do?” I can’t think of anything more appropriate for the Easter season.

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