gardening wild...
I just finished watching the movie "The Constant Gardener" with my wife. And I am quite struck by how ignorant I am of many tragedies in Africa, and in the rest of the world. when the movie ended, i jumped on google and cnn to see if any part of the movie was true, and i found that though the part about the medicine killing people may not have been true, there is definitely much genocide between civil wars and all in all just social injustice and wide spread poverty and disease and i am just so overwhelmed with the fact that i live where i do like i do. i mean of course i know that i have so much and america is so rich and extravagant, and i know that there is poverty everywhere. but, i forget so easily that there is such a huggge gap and that though i think i am poor sometimes compared to others, i am so filthy stinking rich compared to probably 99% of the rest of the world. and i don't feel grateful, i feel sick, really sick. so what do I do. what do we do? how do we begin to handle our american condition in comparison to the African condition, and to the rest of the world? Do we just enjoy our life and say thank you? Do we go convert them all to christianity? Do we convert them to westernization? Do we sell everything we have and give them all our money? Or do we try to save one at a time? Or can we or do we have any power or ability to do something much larger? I just find myself very sick at the fact that i'm not doing much right now...and that really none of us are doing jack shit...and i feel so sick...what do we do?
go to http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/archive/ scroll to the bottom and read
posted by Mikey at 11:16 PM
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Yes, we in north america are in the top 5% of the world's wealth. The average man woman and child in the U.S. has over $30K per year at their disposal. This goes down tremendously by the time you get to countries like Africa where the average man woman and child has less than $900 per year to spend on food and shelter. Read the story of the good samaritan. Notice that the jewish lawyer was asking "how do I get to heaven?" and who really is my neighbour. Jesus basically tells him through the story that everyone is your neighbour. "LOVE THE ONE" this is God's call to us.. love the one. Save half dead naked guys in the ditch and you will go to heaven. Not that we our saved by our works but that our actions show that we love Jesus and the Father. We just need to let His love fill us and then flow to those around us. So what can we do sitting here in our nice apartments and houses trying to decide if we should eat one more piece of greasy pizza when we are already full? Support a child in Africa through Compasion International http://www.compassion.com/Default or through Be a Hero http://revivalnow.com/ and click on "be a hero" Support ministries like http://www.irisministries.co.uk/ that have literally 1000's of children in orphanages. There are things we can do right now. Even right here. We are not hopeless. Commit to praying for these lost children. Pray for finances to build churches, homes, schools and hospitables. Pray for stable governments and pray for Godly people to come and fill those positions.
Yes, we in north america are in the top 5% of the world's wealth. The average man woman and child in the U.S. has over $30K per year at their disposal. This goes down tremendously by the time you get to countries like Africa where the average man woman and child has less than $900 per year to spend on food and shelter. Read the story of the good samaritan. Notice that the jewish lawyer was asking "how do I get to heaven?" and who really is my neighbour. Jesus basically tells him through the story that everyone is your neighbour. "LOVE THE ONE" this is God's call to us.. love the one. Save half dead naked guys in the ditch and you will go to heaven. Not that we our saved by our works but that our actions show that we love Jesus and the Father. We just need to let His love fill us and then flow to those around us. So what can we do sitting here in our nice apartments and houses trying to decide if we should eat one more piece of greasy pizza when we are already full? Support a child in Africa through Compasion International http://www.compassion.com/Default or through Be a Hero http://revivalnow.com/ and click on "be a hero" Support ministries like http://www.irisministries.co.uk/ that have literally 1000's of children in orphanages. There are things we can do right now. Even right here. We are not hopeless. Commit to praying for these lost children. Pray for finances to build churches, homes, schools and hospitables. Pray for stable governments and pray for Godly people to come and fill those positions.
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