Monday, February 05, 2007

Agonize

How often do we agonize over other people? We may fret and worry about family members and friends, but agonize? What about people we've never met?

We are so bombarded with worst of the tragedies that happen every day, it doesn't even faze us any more. Some tragedies are real, but many of them are fiction; entertainment.

The line between fact and fiction blurs to the point that we lose the ability to feel for our fellow man.

Two thousand years ago, we have Paul. He is making a personal connection with a body of believers he had never met. He is struggling, praying, hurting for them. And he had face real tragedy in his day. He had seen murders, poverty, cruelty. And yet he had enough compassion to agonize over people he has never met.

We must find some way to work past the numbness. To see the nameless, faceless masses as the people they really are.

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