My brother says confusion and fear keep us from doing what is good and right.
In my own confusion I wonder (out loud) how we can’t see what is so clear.
What is really common sense,
But, something I also fall short of.
To love people. That’s it.
To love without accommodating ourselves first.
And we question each other - what is helping now?
so often it is about money.
Or the things that often take little to no involvement or front line work.
Something you can do without looking another in the eye.
There is good in charity and money giving – don’t get me wrong. Most of us should probably give more.
But the bigger picture requires getting our hands dirty.
Doesn’t it?
We have become very good at covering up society’s problems.
Or distinguishing which problems belongs to which group.
We do not share our grief and struggle.
We do not reach far enough or deep enough into another person’s disaster.
We decide that there are reasons behind individual loss -
Yet, those reasons do not include our own indifference and inaction.
We are detached.
Do we not belong to each other?
If someone falls, do we not stop to help them up?
Do we look to see that the ground is rocky
and acknowledge that it could have happened to anyone?
Do we notice that the foot that tripped the fallen was our own?
Our job is not to change others.
But to change ourselves.
Our purpose is to love.
And “In perfect love, there is no fear.”
