I just watched a video clip called Depraved Indifference by Eric Ludy... powerful! Every day we are faced with needs around us, some we feel we can do something about, while others seem out of our reach. This video isn't just about giving someone a guilt trip,
it is about the heart of the issue... am I indifferent?
I think the greatest factor in our indifference is our mind-set... the idea that "if I don't see it, it's not real" ...more than any other thing, this keeps us looking for sand to bury our heads. Though we can't do everything... the question remains... am I even touched? Does the plight of another disturb me... is there a place in my heart for the broken and downtrodden? I know what it is like to be utterly hopeless... yet somehow I survived.
One doesn't have to be starving to death... to be dying. One doesn't have to be in a barren land in order to be forgotten. Sometimes all it takes is someone to share our burden, our pain or our poverty. Loneliness is the worst pain there is... yet even loneliness can be cured with a simple smile. Work a miracle today...
touch someone with your smile !:]
"And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'" (Matthew 25:40)
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen. by Francis of Assisi