global

It’s a small world, a global village.

Who’s your neighbour?

We can no longer think local when we think of our fellow man/woman. Social media has made that impossible. We see our fellow humans under attack in Aleppo, we see our fellow humans fighting for their rights over their skin colour. We see our fellow humans being killed for their faith. We see our fellow humans dying form incurable diseases.

Social media can be such a depressing black hole.

But if we look closer, we can see our neighbours rescuing little boys form the rubble, we can see the privileged checking theirs to stand in solidarity with their fellow humans. If we look deeper we can see the flames of Holy Spirit fire coming from our brothers and sisters of faith as they look to Christ with a gun to their back. Come with me and look closer and we see the labs and the doctors and nurses and families that surround the sick and dying - it is holy work. And looking at it all and calling it grace is hard, it feels impossible but if we can’t find God and his grace in any part of it then he is in none of it and we must walk away. The earth is small and it and all that live on it are sick as well. No one here is safe from death. And yet we act as though the person beside is worth less than us, as if our life is somehow more important than theirs.

Matthew 25:31-46