The cost of helping others

Over the weekend military action began to protect the people of Libya from Colonel Gadaffi and his supporters. A joint effort, sanctioned by the United Nations, aims to keep those who oppose the unelected leader safe.

It has been reported that 110 Cruise missiles were fired in the first wave of action. According to some accounts the cost of these cruise missiles is about $600,000 each. A simple piece of arithmetic (it needs to be simple for me) means that this action cost about $66 million for missile hardware alone.

Meanwhile on Friday night, the British charity Comic Relief held its main event. By the end of the evening it was believed to have raised £74.3 million. Two large figures, both related to the intention of helping others.

In other news, it’s Twitter’s fifth birthday. I use Twitter quite a lot to find out what is happening around the world. And it has been said that the uprising in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya itself wouldn’t have happened if not for Twitter and other social networks.

Back to WordLive and this week we’re still with Paul’s letter to the church at Rome. This week we hear that everyone, literally everyone, has in some way fallen short of God’s glory. And to be honest, we don’t need to look at the news to see that; we just need to take a look in the mirror.

Darren