Sunday: Weekly Wrap-It-Up #18

Posted by Sarahbear on July 18, 2010

This will be a fairly busy week. I’m heading back to my grandmother’s house for a few days to help prepare her house for when she comes home from surgery. She’s having a knee replacement done and won’t be able to do very much for herself. My aunts and mother are there trying to sort some things out over the weekend. I would have been down there already if it weren’t for Chad working and my sister working. It’s just not possible. I’m fairly irritated that my grandfather, uncle and cousin can’t seem to function without my grandmother doing everything for them and they’re putting pressure on her to do things before her surgery.

I’ve finished the Goblet of Fire and am starting Order of the Phoenix. I’m aiming to have that, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows read before November, when the first half of the last movie comes out. The books are so good. The movies are well done, but you get much more attached to the characters and a lot more details about how things happened when you read the books.

On a sad note, a guy I graduated with died a few days ago in Afghanistan. It seems so unreal to me when I hear reports of people my age who are dying unnecessary deaths. Dying in a war with no goal, that has been raging on since he and I graduated from high school nearly 10 years ago and has no end in sight. It continues to rip apart families, some temporarily as the soldier is deployed to combat and some permanently when the soldier is tragically killed. Please keep his wife, daughter and parents in your thoughts and prayers as well as all the other families who have lost a loved one to this war.

This weeks Song for Sunday makes a strong statement. The lyrics are powerful, meaningful and they say it better than I could. It’s Linkin Park’s “Hands Held High”.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.