Mother Teresa's Example

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbot who lives a the roadside assaulted by exploitation, corruption, poverty and disease." --Mother Teresa.

I was reading a book on counseling for class and read this quote. It stirred something in my soul. Last night at Crossroad's Saturday night church they showed a three minute video for Operation Christmas Child. I sat there and watched it stirred something in my soul as well. For me, its not enough to send a shoebox with toys, its not enough to send money. I want to go. I don't like social injustice.

It reminded me of the invisible children in Uganda. I still want to go to them and to love them. To sit with them and listen, to learn from them and to hopefully meet a need. I couldn't put a finger on what that need was until I read the former quote. I want to show them I care. Not for my personal satisfaction or pride but because its what some of them need more than school, more than clothes, they need to be loved unconditionally. I think of Grace and all that she suffered and went through and how those emotional scars will be with her all her life and love is weapon against those memories and pains.

I may never get to Uganda. That's ok. I know others are going. It shouldn't stop me from living in such a manner here in America, in my little corner of the world. But all to often it does. I don't want it to anymore.