Unprotected

When you consider the violence in the Congo or Darfur, the plague of AIDS in Africa, or the fact that millions of people are dying of malnutrition and preventable diseases you realize that we have learned nothing from the holocaust. We in the western world have the potential to do so much good, and we don’t.

The Bible tells us that Abraham, the patriarch of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, was blessed so that he could be a blessing. In the west we are living in a period of unparalleled prosperity, yet we sit idly by as these tragedies occur. Could it be that we have been blessed to be a blessing? And could it also be that the key to prolonging and deepening this blessing is not to turn our gaze inward in a neurotic attempt to protect ourselves?

[via The Bush League Theologian]