Anger and Bitterness Resolved

She smiled and played her role, but the rage inside began to build and consume her.

"I wanted to escape that picture," she said. "I got burned by napalm, and I became a victim of war ... but growing up then, I became another kind of victim."

She turned to Cao Dai, her Vietnamese religion, for answers. But they didn't come.

"My heart was exactly like a black coffee cup," she said. "I wished I died in that attack with my cousin, with my south Vietnamese soldiers. I wish I died at that time so I won't suffer like that anymore ... it was so hard for me to carry all that burden with that hatred, with that anger and bitterness."

One day, while visiting a library, Phuc found a Bible. For the first time, she started believing her life had a plan.  (read the full story here)

This is a portion of Kim's story.  She was the little girl in that dreadful pictured seared into our minds from Vietnam of the little naked girl crying as she is running from the Napalm melting her forest safe haven.

If you would like to know more about Kim Phuc, you should check out her foundation website.  She has dedicated herself to helping the healing process for other children who are victims of war.

For further educational interest in Napalm and the companies who made it, begin my doing a search on Dow and Monsanto.

Thank you Lord that Kim found your word and was able to release all the anger and bitterness in her heart.  Help each of us to do the same thing everyday.  

Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.  Psalm 119:104