Lost Boys

We watched part of the movie God Grew Tired of Us today as part of our devotion time. It's a movie put together by National Geographic on the "Lost Boys" - thousands of boys that fled Sudan and the fighting and lost pretty much everything, including their families, in the process. The movie tells the story a few boys/men who eventually emigrate to the U.S. and their experience here as complete newcomers.

Here's one student's reflections on the movie.


Skeleton, dark walking skeletons. The lost boys of Africa numbered over 27,000 then 12,000. Who am I to complain about another thing in my life.

Still they are not broken. They laugh like boys and men do, they are human while having endured things that can not just kill you but take your heart and soul.

I would have probably already taken my own life.

They are strong, they should have nothing left. Now they must leave the men they struggled with, to go to a land where they are not wanted.

The few men chosen to go know that leaving their brothers will hurt but they cannot deny themselves this opportunity.

Can you imagine anything stranger than the Western world with all its convenience, protocols. They are utterly lost.