In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.