the tears he sees

.... (oopz warning...another un-lighthearted post ahead)

"When you were under the fig tree I saw you." John 1:48

This week was somewhat changed by a video i watched. One might think "oh its one of those lame videos on youtube" But no. this was a real one though not from our country. And though i happened to watch it on wednesday by sheer chance because this man out of nowhere (well he was the printer toner changer), was so overwhelmed by this video his friend took of his own country, depicting a scene of well, a mild crime done by a young girl (about 13-14 yrs old) but the group took serious vengeance on her which was way more than "tooth for tooth" for her mild crime.

This was in the man's own country (not here) and there he was exposing his own country. If there was one thing positive and beautiful about the whole thing, it was that this man knew what the group of people did was wrong. And was exposing the sin of his own nation to us from another nation and telling us how sad he felt about his countrymen's violence. He also felt very bad for the poor girl.

I thought about this: why would a person not overwhelmed by grief for his own people and their wrongdoing tell this to someone not in their own country?