Sunday, July 25, 2010

Shame on me

If you were walking around a pond and saw a child drowning you would immediately jump into the pond and save the child. If there were thousands of other people around this pond, you would not simply look at this child and say of someone else will save the child. No, of course not, you would jump in and save the child because it is your duty to help that child. You feel obligated to help a drowning child.

So let's switch gears here...

Why is it that thousands of miles away, there are children dying and suffering because they are hungry and yet no one saves them? Why is it that people can see thousands of sick children on TV and turn their heads and say to themselves, someone else will save them. Why is it that people will jump into a pond and save a child but will not use their powers and gifts to save a child thousands of miles away?

Why do we feel compelled to save a drowning child and not a child that we cannot see? Shame on us, shame on me for not seeing the child that also needs my help. Shame on us for turning our backs and saying someone else will save that child. It makes me sick to my stomach knowing that I have done that and that others that I know have done that. Shame on me.

I have heard it said like this before, " If it[ it being the need to help all] were acted upon, even in its qualified form, our lives, our society, and our world would be fundamentally changed."

1 comment:

KalynBrooke said...

So true! Thanks for sharing!