If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Sometimes local news is too sad...

I want to put my filters back on. I know much worse stuff happens elsewhere, but for some reason this news story spun me...

ONE of Queensland's most prominent indigenous elders was left for dead for more than five hours at a busy Brisbane bus stop after suffering a stroke.

Buses came and went and hundreds of students and commuters walked past Delmae Barton's prone body at the bus stop at Griffith University's Mt Gravatt campus last Tuesday.

A group of Japanese students finally came to Aunty Delmae's aid.

Tears ran down her cheeks yesterday as the 62-year-old recalled the shame of lying in her own vomit, unable to speak or reach out to passers-by.
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posted by Naomi at 11:43

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