i mean, i guess i heard there was something going on in the sudan... but it didnt really concern me... i mean, what can i do right?... and how will this directly affect me, right?...
god, what a self-centered man i am... and here i could bleed on and on about how much i wish the situation wasnt so bad, but to what end?... am i going there?... am i sending aid?... is it even that simple?...
at a conference this last weekend that i attended, i heard a person say that the bible means nothing if you are not involved in service to the least of these... its some thought process called 'praxis' i believe... and it really got me thinking that day as we discussed the church's posture towards the least of these... we tend to overspiritualize much of the earthiness when we think of the scripture in abstractions, away from interacting with it in the way jesus interacted with it...
the least of these... not the spiritually least of these, but the truly least of these... not so we can make them like us, but so we can meet their needs... not so we can teach them the american dream, but so we can help them in their darkest hour...
is this too overdramatic?... perhaps... i guess i feel like if i go on and on about it, then somehow i will be released from any responsibility...
jen lemen's blog has some insightful and heart-wrenching points in her last two posts on the sudan... she updates alot and i chose not to link to just one story because its worth reading at least the two i read today...
what must we do?... what can we do?... well first, what are the implications to each of us?... i mean, in doug's word, 'how does this news implicate you, me, us?'... and then what must we do?...
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