This image was sent to me recently in an e-mail. It is the 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken by Kevin Carter. The photograph shows a famine stricken Sudanese child trying to reach food. Behind her is a vulture waiting for her to die so it can feed upon her.

Kevin Carter, a South Africa photojournalist, committed suicide two months after receiving the Pulitzer Prize. His long time friend, Judith Matloff, stated that Carter would often return from upsetting assignments with bouts of crying, drinking, or using drugs. She says that after he shot his Pulitzer Prize winning photo, he "sat under a tree and cried and chain-smoked" - he couldn't distance himself from the horror he saw. No one knows what happened to the girl in the picture.

In his suicide note he stated that he was haunted by the vivid memories of killings, corpses, anger, pain, starving and wounded children and trigger-happy madmen.

This world is fallen. All of us suffer. But if you are reading this you have it far better than most. Right now, half the world (about 3 billion people) lives on less than two dollars a day. Because of poverty, over 30,000 children die every day. Every year 2.2 million children die because they are not immunized and 15 millions children are orphaned because of HIV/AIDS.

It's easy to live in our comfortable lives, detached from the rest of the world; most of us don't want to fully realize how much suffering is really occurring in the world. They say ignorance is bliss but who benefits from it? Nobody.

I struggle with empathy and pray often for more of it. I pray that I will be more selfless, not consumed with this world and what it has offer me. It is only temporary and moving past me at an enormous rate. There are many people suffering, many people who have not heard about their Savior, Jesus Christ. We should always be motivated to spread the good news to the fallen world.