People ask me all the time how they can have a life of service when they have a job necessary to support their families. People tell me they work 45-50 hours a week and the commute time is 2-3 hours a day. Where is the time for service?
Do they see the unhoused people on the streets? They haven’t chosen to be there. These are people that are also trying to find hope and purpose for their lives. When we forget them, we are forgetting God. Our hands are dirty! Our lives are dirty!
Now is the right time to act. It doesn’t take a miracle to do something about our unhoused brothers and sisters. And it doesn’t take any extra time away from our jobs. A donation here, a phone call there. One of these would be the starting point to help our unhoused neighbors to finding their own way to fulfillment.
We are not perfect. They are not perfect. We cannot solve the issue. But perhaps that one phone call can lift one person. To find the stairway out of nowhere. And lift him up to find his dream. Isn’t that all that God asks? And isn’t that one phone call a life of service?
©Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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