Last night I watched Letterman interviewing Bill Clinton. Clinton talked about his non-profit organization, the work that the organization has done in the past few years. How they have helped improving the lives of many people around the world - especially those in the developing countries. The key point was -- don't just be a tax payer, help those who are in need of help.
This is a simple message but how many of us are doing that now?? Well, I am certainly not…Last year, a group of us talked about volunteering, but we never put words into action.. 9 months has gone by… we still didn’t do anything. It’s time for us to put words into action and commit to help others, even it’s just a few dollars, little things help.
9月23日 「冷漠」的罪
讀經:阿摩司書第6-9章、俄巴底亞書
「耶和華降罰的日子臨近萬國。你怎樣行,祂也必照樣向你行;你的報應必歸到你頭上。」(俄巴底亞書15節)
每天我們總是在接受不同的資訊,就連電子郵件也是如此,尤其在這電子的時代,大家總喜歡轉寄信件,內容包羅萬象:趣味、分享、知識、生活、信仰、文學…等等,而當發現有些是社會邊緣人物的故事,他們的生活困苦,處境可憐。而通常我們會如何面對這則電子郵件呢?
德蕾莎修女曾說:「愛的相反詞,不是恨,而是冷漠。」是的,當有恨意時,仍然心存愛意,感仍有些在乎;一旦全然冷漠時,則已毫無愛意可言。
有首詩歌《把冷漠變成愛》,裡面提到:「你的眼是否被太多美麗的事物迷惑?你的心是否被太多紛雜的世俗綁鎖?分些關懷給角落中受傷的靈魂,分些愛給那些不起眼的面孔…這世界需要你我把冷漠變成愛。」
阿摩司書中提及以色列人對真神冷漠,遭上帝的責備;而俄巴底亞書則提及以東對以色列冷漠,沒有善盡保護兄弟之情;他們都因為冷漠遭禍。以東的領土位於南國猶大國的南方,原來該民族為以掃的後裔,所以,算起來以東人和以列色人為親兄弟,但以東並沒有適時伸手幫助以色列,反而幸災樂禍,此為神所痛恨之事(詩一三七7;俄11~14)。
【生命挑戰】「冷漠」原來也是一種罪,在這個世代裡,太多人冷眼旁觀,無論世局如何變遷,社會如何變化,始終仍只在意自己的事,就算周遭發生重大的事,也不關己身般,不予理會,真是冷漠到極點了!求上帝幫助我們成為熱情的人!並深切知道自己在這世上是有使命。