Who Do You Serve?
I heard Brian Williams on Countdown with Keith Olbermann talk about the people of Haiti as people who had next to nothing and now have nothing as a result of the earthquake, it hit me hard. Regardless of what we say or think, regardless of the rights we do or don’t have in this country we STILL have much that we do so little with.
We have a car and a job and a home but the car is five years old, the job only pays $40k a year and the home is too small to house all of our many things. We in this country live so large and think and act so small dealing in trivialities like our stuff, the stuff we have, the stuff others have, the stuff we don’t have. I don’t believe acquiring, holding onto and coveting stuff whatever it is, is why we are placed here on this earth. I believe we are here to serve. The earthquake in Haiti has reinforced that belief for me.
Each and every one of us has the ability and the means to serve one other person in some way. The amount of help is inconsequential but the help IS consequential. I heard former President Clinton say right now the best way to help is to give money, even $1. Lord know you can’t even get a Starbucks cup of coffee for $1. Why not do that? What are you really giving up to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti? Most likely you are giving something up that isn’t essential to living and breathing in the first place.
There are those who say, well why should I send money out of this country when we have people right here who are starving and I say as always put your money where your B.A.M. is and feed the hungry right here.
All I’m really saying is Haiti is telling me and maybe it is telling you too, it’s time to serve someone other than yourself.
