Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Half of our country is flooding, the other, burning. Hate has become rampant and peace, rare. A cockroach mentality has emerged, “tear down others to pull ourselves up, it’s us against them.”
We treat people like skittles yet go to church and preach of love and peace. He said it himself in Genesis, "for the sake of ten, I will not destroy it."
I thought he told us to love each other.
I thought he told us that we are all connected.
I thought they taught us to love our neighbors as ourselves.
yet here we are, picking and discarding who we believe do not deserve the American Dream.
I have been blessed to meet so many people along the way. Colored, white, trans, gay, immigrant, U.S. born, christians, muslim, athiest, buddhist. When you talk to them, do you not see them as people? When they are cut, do they not bleed the same blood? When they are hurt, do they not shed the same tears? When we die, are we not buried in the same dirt? Do you not hear their dreams and aspirations?
The world is in pain and nations are suffering. But love will prevail. It will set fire to the hearts of the weary and bless those needing a helping hand. There is good in the world and we see it in the hearts of the good samaritans, protectors, helpers, teachers, hard workers, believers, providers, go-getters, and dreamers.
Good will always beat evil.
Some of the hardest working people I have ever met are being threatened to be sent to a land that they have hardly any knowledge of. How easily it could have been for you to have been born into their bodies instead of them. How easily it could have been for your life to have turned out differently. Or do you believe that God just wanted you to have a better life? Do you believe that God raises you on a pedestal higher than a certain other type of people? Or are you just afraid? Terrified of an attack or crime rates going up? Or are you just scared of change? If God truly were the center of your life, then following His very words should be a priority. We have been playing God for far too long, it is not our place to choose who gets to flourish. It is not our place to tell people that at age five they should have rebelled against their parents' decision to search for a better life. All genuine parents strive to provide their children with a better future. I am forever grateful to my parents for giving me so many opportunities that I would have never even imagined if I had stayed in the Philippines. But so many different things could have happened and we could have ended up having a completely different future. So who am I to judge?
