Well i went to the soup kitchen today for one reason and the only reason that i went was for the fact that i need to have eight hours of community service done for the beta club at the end of the year. well i wasn't really thinking that i would be in a pleasant mood this evening you all could guess why, but i had a rather interesting talk with another person and it kinda changed my perspective on how to handle certain situations and well i think that i handled it pretty well tonight. we get there and i am alright pretty happy, god knows i don't like to meet new people or even associate with half of the people that i meet in common society but we all know we have to do stuff like this once in awhile so that we can reach out to those who are lost in the community. sure it was just simple as taking a tray to someone who is hungry when the could do it themselves but most of these people thought this was an extraordinary thing for us to be doing for them. they would shout out "god bless" and "thanks so much" but honestly i didn't see what we were doing as anything of much importance. but apparently it made some of these people happy to see us caring about these people who were either poor and on the streets or just struggling in general. There were a few moments in the time that i was there in which i felt really bad for those people who were having to come to this place and eat this kinda revolting food. i saw some old faces that were there the time before when we came and volunteered and there were some new faces. there was one in particular that i found that made me extremely sad, there was a little girl with ratty hair and skinny as a starving dog you would find on the streets, and wow it hurt to see her. why is it that these people are suffering while we eat a comforting meal everyday of our happy lives. in my opinion it seems as though we try to block out these people from common society so that we don't have to see what is happening to them
Moral Of Today : Reaching Out Isn't Only Good For Someone Else, It Opens Your Own Eyes Also
UGH! I had a comment typed out and then it got deleted!
ReplyDelete"why is it that these people are suffering while we eat a comforting meal everyday of our happy lives." I ask myself this alot.
"in my opinion it seems as though we try to block out these people from common society so that we don't have to see what is happening to them" Very true!
We need to make sure we are confronting these issues and questioning God about them. We need to be listening to him about how to fix the issues or maybe to fix us. In the process of fixing something, we need to not mix up their physical issues with their spiritual issues. Simply because we give them a meal or a coat or something does not give us the right to preach at them about God. Let our actions speak for us and for God until they ask us about it. Just my opinion.