Neighbor-2-Neighbor

A friend posted a note on FaceBook about a missing daughter.  Breaks my heart.  And I got carried away as I am wont to do . . . but I am passionate about this.

Too sad . . . can you imagine what our nation would be like if ALL children were precious to everyone, if even babies and small children were not neglected, abused, abandoned.

We call ourselves civilized . . . and go on and on about our social programs while thousands of modular homes stay in lots and people are homeless . . . where motels and hotels and apartment buildings -- and houses stand empty and people are homeless . . . while people have so many homes, clothes, cars, foods and people are hungry and homeless -- not only all around the two-thirds world, but right down your street in a city -- in the parks . . . kicked out of shelters during the day . . .

God says in scripture --"I am so sick of your lip service to me and your silly ways of worship and your fasts.  The fast I want is for the homeless, orphaned, widowed, and strangers to be brought into your homes."

And please don't pray to God on behalf of someone when you can be the one who answeres your prayer.

We must find more ways to break our hearts of stone and relax our stiff necks.

All there needs to be is the will to help people and the action in love to follow through.

I'm not saying that a LOT of people aren't doing a LOT . . . but it is still not enough and we can do more together -- in our families . . . in our neighborhoods . . . in our towns and villages and countrysides  . . . in our counties and in our cities.

I am not talking about government programs or even NGO, faith-based and non-profit charities.  I am talking about people to people -- Neighbor-2-Neighbor.

Maybe we can help the people living in poverty find ways to help one another -- help them to realize that they can have support to stop the violence, stop the drop-outs, bring jobs back to their neighborhoods -- help them do what THEY have a vision to do -- and then we can share together.

No more fear . . . no more hunger . . . no more violence . . . just everyone with the opportunity to have a home and fulfill their dreams.

We can do it -- we can all do it together with God's help in whatever way each of us perceives God to be if it is loving and beyond non-violence to loving, shared activity.


Kathleen Ware Harris  © 2013
kwharris777@gmail.com