Sitting at home, with ice and sleet coming down, one is forced to deal with two things: the weather reports telling people where they can go to find shelter and the news reports barraging the air with changes in our country and the focus on the need to help the paychecks of the middle class so that all of us have equality of opportunity. I rejoice that this is a subject that we think is worth dealing with. It's what I believe about the words of Jesus most strongly: "Am I my brothers keeper? asked in the Bible and the words in Matthew 25:40 when the King answered, " Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me."
So as we listen to new words and phrases being thrown out such as Sequestering, country of brown and blacks, and kicking the can down the road (I wish I had a dollar for every time one of those phrases is used on the air), I must remember that the way we answer those questions says much for us as a country. Do we have equal access? Do we have a different face in America? Can America survive economically sound without changes?
Change is hard to accept. But the words of Christ abide. I believe that I have a responsibility to those who need help and to the downtrodden. Lord, help me to reach out to those who cannot help themselves.
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