This link has been circulating around Facebook the last few days, and I finally looked through it.
My thoughts while reading and viewing:
"This is disgusting. This is not fair. This is hopeless."
I don't know why some people are born into such privilege, where they have the luxury of being perfectionists, or professionals, or even angry. Looking at these pictures, I realized that anger is a luxury. I don't understand all the reasons why.
But these things I know: there is a God. He created us all. We are His children, and He loves us all equally, even if our circumstances and privileges cause us to ask why and how. I know that I cannot comprehend all the things that God comprehends.
I know that Jesus Christ lives. He felt the pain of all of us, He knows the pain of hunger, cold, loneliness, confusion, unfairness, perfectionism, anger. He knows us all. Somehow, through His grace, we will all live in perfect equality someday. The pain will be compensated for. There will be no sorrow, only hope and joy.
For now, all I can do is offer all the love in my heart to everyone. To try and be more patient, more understanding, more giving. To express gratitude for all the privilege and luxury that I enjoy. To complain less. To share His light. To be humbler, softer, gentler. To trust in God and look forward with hope for the day when children no longer live in poverty.
I hope that I wear out my life and my hands and my heart in lifting up the hands that hang down and strengthening the feeble knees.
