Impact of refugees
On only rare occasions do we safe and well fed actually have to face the injustice, to look into the refugee’s eyes, to see the child being carried by a parent escaping war. On only rare occasions do we get to ask, have to ask, what will we do for that person, for that child, for that parent. Often as not we find no satisfactory answer, and we leave the desperate masses on the bridge or shore or sidewalk or shelter, while we return to our comfortable hotel room or home.
But God help us if we are not changed by the encounter. God help our souls if we do not ask what we can do, even if no answer is evident.
What will we, the well fed in safe places, do about those hungry and at risk?
We will not change the world, but can we change a life? And if so, must that change not start with our own life?
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