Preparing For Action…
Posted on 10.21.07 in General and there are 5 comments.
I’ve been doing some research for the Inspiredtoaction.com site and I’ve been floored by the amount of need and injustice in the world.
Why didn’t I know?
I’m 32 years old.
I have cable, internet and a daily newspaper.
But I’ve only recently begun to see the depth of need and the vastness of the injustice.
Somewhere along the way I got used to seeing commercials or telethons for hungry children and I just changed the channel.
My greatest fear in working on this new site and in learning more about world need is that I would grow complacent.
RIght now, I feel like my brain is about to explode from all that I’m learning and all that I want to do.
But I’ve heard it’s normal to become desensitized to suffering.
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Dave Ramsey has a great quote (while I know it’s about finances, it still applies), that if “normal is broke, then I want to be weird”!! i’ve clung to that statement a lot over the last few months. If “normal” is a “broken life” (broken = empty, searching, lacking substance, materialistic, “me"-focused, believing ‘this is all there is’, etc.), then I want to be W-E-I-R-D, in ALL aspects of my life!
WEIRD is good…
Oct 22, 07 at 06:33 am
For some reason I thought of a quote from mother theresa,
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
That is my desire that my heart would just grow more and more accustomed to loving others, that it would become something natural, not that I would grow complacent. This is something we can pray for one another about and against becoming desensitized.
Oct 22, 07 at 08:01 am
Brandon - It reminds me of the verse in Bible about being a “peculiar” people.
That’s really excellent Kristin!
Oct 22, 07 at 10:10 am
I’m with Kristin! so long as we are doing this in love, I don’t think we’ll grow desensitized. More used to it perhaps, but not less willing to work.
Oct 22, 07 at 10:56 am
It’s a constant struggle for me to click on the stories I hear and actually read about them. It’s hard for me to allow myself to feel the emotions I know I’ll feel when I read the stories—it’s actually easier for me to watch a report on TV because it doesn’t leave so much up to my own imagination. When I hear from my friends in Bulgaria or the Gypsies they’re working with, that’s when it becomes very real to me.
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Brandon Marler
Oct 21, 07 at 08:56 pm