The Boy & The Vulture

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You know the picture of 'A BOY FALLEN TO THE GROUND FROM HUNGER WHILE A VULTURE LURKED ON THE GROUND NEARBY?'

This picture was taken by Kevin Carter. 

Kevin took that picture in 1993 during the Sudan war and the famine that followed.

Kevin was an award winning South African Photojournalist.

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994 for a picture he took in 1993.

He sold this picture to The New York Times which then spread round the world. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask for the fate of the boy.

Kevin died in 1994. He never recovered from that sight as he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

'I'm really, really sorry. The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist... depressed... without phone... money for rent...money for child support...money for debts...money!!!.. I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain.....of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners....I have gone to join Ken I am that lucky.' - Kevin Carter [Suicide letter]

During a training session of Interns at Harvesters International Christian Church, I shared that fear generally comes through two major windows the 'eyes and ears'. 

It matters what you see and what you hear.

The main target is your heart, for you are what you think. 

In a world where what spreads easily is what can induce fear, you will need to insist to focus on what is true, positive, encouraging, empowering, strengthening and full of hope.

You will need to create a protocol system that filters what gains access to your heart before it gets there.  

Be intentional about this and if you must fight, FIGHT. 

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Picture - Kong Nyong (the starving boy now a man whose picture was taken in 1993)

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