Sunday, October 10, 2010

Two Worlds Collide part 2

What if I lived here?

RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - JUNE 24: (EDITORS NOTE: A TILT AND SHIFT LENS WAS USED IN THE CREATION OF THIS IMAGE.) A family pose outside a shanty house on June, 2010 in Rustenburg, South Africa. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)



Instead of here.



What if this was our family vehicle?

A family fleeing flood waters rides on a motorcycle to evacuate while looking for higher ground in Khan por village in Sukkur at Pakistan's Sindh province August 9, 2010. Landslides triggered by the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years are hampering already troubled relief efforts, with aid workers using donkeys or travelling on foot to reach millions in desperate need of help. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)


Instead of this.




What if the fact that we have a vehicle is an unattainable reality for most?

What if this was MY child's bed?

A Cambodian child rests on a hammock at his family shelter at the Steng Meanchey dump site outside Phnom Penh July 5, 2010. Although the city has new modern site that handles its garbage, hundreds of Cambodians including children, many of them orphans, still live and work at the old abandoned dump site in the outskirts of Phnom Penh.  REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (CAMBODIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)


What if our pot of soup for our dinner would be consider a week's worth of meals for a family in another part of the world?

What if my this was where I prepared our food?

A woman washes her clothes with water from a polluted river in Indonesia's capital Jakarta August 21, 2010. Jakarta, with a population of 9.59 million, is overcrowded, set in an earthquake zone, prone to flooding, and crippled by inadequate infrastructure. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has recently suggested moving the capital, or the seat of government, to relieve Jakarta's congestion. Picture taken August 21, 2010. To match feature INDONESIA-CAPITAL/  REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CITYSCAPE)

And this our water to drink?

A girl bathes with water from a polluted river in Indonesia's capital Jakarta August 21, 2010. Jakarta, with a population of 9.59 million, is overcrowded, set in an earthquake zone, prone to flooding, and crippled by inadequate infrastructure. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has recently suggested moving the capital, or the seat of government, to relieve Jakarta's congestion. Picture taken August 21, 2010. To match feature INDONESIA-CAPITAL/  REUTERS/Crack Palinggi (INDONESIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS CITYSCAPE)





What will I do when confronted with these images? Am I willing to DO anything? Willing to sacrifice something? Will I sit idly by? Saying I have enough to do already. Will I turn away and pretend it doesn't exist? What will God say when I stand before Him?

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these." ~Mark 12:30-31

Are they really my neighbor 1/2 a world away?

"Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act."
~Proverbs 3:27


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