Your sisters are starving....what will you do?

Business is a catalyst to apathy. I know this first hand. So many of us are so BUSY, we forget to just STOP and THINK. Think about what you are doing, who you are doing it with, why you are doing it. I will add a disclaimer though, reflection is dangerous. You might notice something about yourself that is lacking or is to prevalent. Then, if you aren't careful, you might be convicted to do something about it. That is what has happened to me....over and over and over again. As I am preparing to go off to far away lands and try to leave a lasting mark, I think about what I have done in this land that I know leave my footprint on. And the void of action is staggering. It's not just about what you can do for people half way around the world, although many times we see these people only as commercials on television, or headlines in a allied attack....it is also about those in your BACKYARD. And if you can't find someone in need in your backyard, then you aren't LOOKING. 

We are all grieving. This world is disconnected from God. We have disconnected ourselves, not only from the Creator, but from each other as well. We have separated ourselves with social classes, brand names, borders, languages, hairstyles, pop culture, education....etc. Instead of using these things to enable each other to enjoy life, we use it to exclude people from enjoying life. We would have taken the sun long ago and sold it's light to the rich, if only it were within our grasp. Leaving our brothers and sisters in the dark.

Change This. 

Son, did you stare to long in front of that mirror?

did it break when your conscience didn't get any clearer

with the stomach you fill with all the food you eat

and lack of pain you feel for the eyes that weep

outside your windowsill of the castle where you sleep?

Has the sun stopped shining on the crown you hang?

has your love and hate started to feel the same?

did that leave you feeling empty, feeling sick,

feeling empty as a child's stomach?

As alone and forsaken as you'd like to be

there are shoreless miseries of oceans, not seas

while you wallow and wait in your tower of ivory

your sister is starving, your brother is begging

Your sisters are starving, your brothers are begging,

Your mothers are mourning, your fathers are folding

Unseen, unsung- under the same sun

Wake up, look up, there's a warmth up there

a reminder of peace, a reason to care

A reason to care

Wake up, look up, that's something you share

There's more to life than the boy in that mirror...

Wake up, wake up, wake up....

...from the depths of this hell:

where the free are slaves,

no difference between the cowards and brave,

where our love and our hate have become the same,

it's time that we "unbecame"...

Where the ears are deaf, and the tongues too dry,

where the arms don't hold, and seeing eyes go blind

Where nothing is everything,

And everything is nothing,

"Arise- my soul, and sing"

---lyrics by HAVE HEART