Greetings Dear Reader,
Halloween is a couple of weeks away. Harvests are mostly gathered in the Northern
Hemisphere. Spring planting and promise
of harvest is renewed in the Southern one.
The world is ready to turn toward the season of celebrations and winter
or summer. In the United States there
are already reminders of Thanksgiving and Christmas in the shops. Our Canadian neighbors have already had their
Thanksgiving. Churches and social
services organizations are gearing up for their campaigns to aid the poor.
I want to spend some time pondering the poor and who they
really are. I feel that we have set aside
too much of our responsibility in helping those who are in need. It seems to me that we do not really take care
of each other. I am not doing this
because I want to shame or chastise anyone else. Rather, even though I am struggling with my
own needs, I have to make sure that I do what I can to help those in need. I must not forget that part of my seeking the
provision of my needs to ask that I have enough to help the poor.
It troubles me deeply that we need to think about this at
all. It should be our nature to care for
those in need. It should be part of our
common practice to feed our enemies when they are hungry. Instead we argue about it and point to our
own fear as justification for it.
Please walk with me among the bright colours of Autumn in
our hemisphere and the growing warmth of Spring in the Southern one. Let us reason out how we can always have an
eye out for those in need as we journey.
If I have little it does not free me from caring for those who have
less. When I have abundance, the responsibility
is to understand and live out that I can do more. I do
not wish to fail whilst I am struggling to have the right heart, mind, and
actions concerning those who are also in need.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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