How Can We Not Move?

I was enjoying my free time tonight...two kids at Grandparents and the baby asleep upstairs.
I happened upon my friend Sharla's blog and read an entry that has had me weeping and nauseous for the last half hour.
It is important enough that I think you should read it.
And it should make us all furious and devastated...at the injustice in this world.
I am very comfortable living in America, with my new house and nice car; my healthy kids, my great neighbors, a bounty of savory and nutritious food.
I am safe here. I don't have to worry about a shortage of food, lack of clean water or some preventable illness like malaria killing my children.
Sharla's blog wasn't the first time that I've heard of injustice...It was just the first time that images so unimaginable, so evil stirred up a rising in my heart.
Let this be the last day that I (we) sit still in our comfort and complacency.
May we move and move quickly to end injustice, feed and serve the poor, take children into our homes, mother the motherless, father the fatherless.
I have wasted so many years not caring, not knowing, turning a blind eye to things that might be too painful for me to deal with.
I would rather turn on the televsion, or decorate my house, or go shopping for things I don't need than take the time to search out and care for those who are starving, dying, who don't have food and water.
I have not been Christ's hands and feet.

I pray that I can begin to live radically different.
And I pray for these children we read about it...that they will be fed, held, loved until we can touch them ourselves.

I know this work will look different for all of us....some of will stay here and work to end injustice here in the US, others will travel to other countries temporarily, some will move away to serve permanently.
Whatever you do... Do something.
On the left of my blog you will see several organizations listed with ways to care for children (Compassion, World Orphans, Buckner)...click on one of those links and begin to change a child's life now.

I need to clarify that I don't believe that we can't enjoy our lives and all the beauty in it.
But I would imagine if you examined your own life like I have mine, you will begin to see ways in which we all need to change.
Excess. Gluttony. Complacency. Fear. Ignorance. Indifference. Selfishness.
I would rather die a young woman feeding the hungry, rescuing the enslaved, clothing the naked than die an old lady who never lifted a finger to hold or feed a starving child.

I have a lot to work on.
Now go find yourself a quiet spot and read this and listen for what God would have you do about it.
(Yes, I'm bossy when I'm passionate about something)