Who Is My Neighbor?

Day Six: After a break yesterday, it's back to drinking only water for 6 more days and though I really enjoyed my cup of coffee Sunday morning it made me a little jittery... I'm sure I'll get over that once I get back in the regular habit of it LOL! I am also eating more and I'm not sure why? I have heard that coffee will suppress appetite and maybe it's because my taste buds are bored..... Not good that I am probably gaining weight but still good that the money I am saving will go towards the drilling of wells and construction of bio sand filtering boxes.

                                       Who Is My Neighbor?

                          


        Luke 10:25-37 is the well known parable of the Good Samaritan who finds a man along the side of the road badly beaten and robbed and cares for all his needs until he can recover. Before the Samaritan found him, a priest and a Levite who were religious leaders in their time had seen the poor wretched man and had passed by on the other side of the road, ignoring the man's distress.

                                     Who Is My Neighbor?

       With mass media coverage we have awareness of the needs of others which was not so available 50 years ago. We have access to all sort of means of travel which was not so easy 50 years ago and we have the ability now with better equipment, medicines and new technologies which were not available 50 years ago. We have so much to offer in the 21st century.......... So why don't we?

Bono from the rock band U2 has been the voice for the poor in the World for a long time now and said these words which were sobering to me.



Anderson Cooper and Bono full lenght K'naan Samalia famine




        "15,000 Africans are dying each day of preventable, treatable diseases.  This statistic alone makes a fool of the idea many of us hold on to very tightly:  The idea of EQUALITY, there's no way we could conclude that such mass death day after day would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.  Certainly not in the US,EU or Japan.  An entire continent bursting into flames?  Deep down, if we really accept that their lives, African lives are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out.  It's an uncomfortable truth."

               

        Why is it that the crash of a single airplane makes headlines while the equivalent of one hundred planes, filled with African children crashing daily never reaches our ears? Because that is the reality folks!  Maybe it's because the child is not our own. Maybe if it were happening in our own neighborhood?