I catch myself often asking the obvious question when proverbial bad stuff happens. As I respond to an emergency call and then text from the aunt of a few of my kiddos, I’m taken back that this same person recently had ‘f’d’ me off because I didn’t do something she commanded instantly. Now I was the only one that could help. How would she approach me? I had hoped that she would have shown some sense of regret for past actions but instead it was a cry for help because her sister, my kiddos’ mom, had been arrested and she needed help with getting the kids home from school.
I can’t fathom what it felt like to watch your mom be handcuffed and hauled off in a police cruiser just before being taken to school. I know that in the present context of our insanely crazy world that this isn’t close to being run over by a tank while driving or watching your family’s apartment being blown up. I’m also taken back by so many that view the present dictator, villain, and tyrant as an intelligent genius for invading a sovereign nation.
Again, the WHY question comes into play as many ask the obvious question, what is really happening in the world around us. I know it is easy for many to scream about increased gas prices or the why of wanting to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels, which equivocates to stopping various pipelines regardless of the location. I know that it’s so easy to allow the little irritants of my world cloud the more important issues as families race to get across a border to save their babies. The reality that I could be called into the military or choose to volunteer to defend my country that I Iove in the face of the total aggressor dictator is real!
How is it possible to go about my normal routine today and not be impacted by tragic consequences of the fallenness of mankind. I’m truly sadden by the actions of a mom who I had trusted to a certain extent to be real and honest to me. Yes, I was conned or scammed by this individual, but the real hurt is a group of kids and teens that have a mom they now know was willing to risk losing them.
The bigger world stage crisis is that there isn’t much I can do personally to stop the apparent evil to continue to hurt innocent babies, kids, moms, dads, and seniors! Clearly, I will pray that God will overcome the EVIL that is present in the drama unfolding before the world. Yet, isn’t there some sense in which as I choose to face the evil and hurt around me that this does impact the world on the larger stage?
Please choose to do something that makes a difference the smaller world around you today. I know as I host a group of thirty High School students from a private school to paint a house of a low income senior that most will be exposed to life they’ve never seen nor experienced before.