Sometimes, God, I just don't get it. I watch the world, I read the news, I talk to people, I try to understand things--but I still just don't get it. Human beings continue to do awful things to the planet and to each other, and there doesn't seem to be much anyone can do about it. We try to educate people, but other people screw up the educational system so that it becomes much less effective and useful. We try to police people and cities, but some people just find ways to avoid that policing and to harm others any way they can. We try to take care of the less fortunate, but many people just do their best to manipulate the system and take advantage of it.
What are we as human beings doing? Even more important, what are we as spiritual beings doing? Why are we so strongly focused on movie stars and athletes, and not on our siblings and our children? Why do we look for ways to compete with and harm each other instead of trying to find ways to cooperate with and help each other?
I get confused when I see the anger in the world. I feel admiration when I see the love in the world. I see people killing people and I feel disheartened; I see people contributing to food banks and I feel hope. And I wonder why more people can't give and share and encourage, and why fewer people don't feel the need to harm and discourage. I see the beautiful forests and I feel elation; I watch people cut down the trees for profit, and I feel confused as to why we don't search out other sources of power and paper. I see a young child's smile, and I feel hope for the world; I hear how his or her parents abuse the child, and I feel a deep sadness and hopelessness for our future as a race.
What can I do? How can I help? Tell me, God--guide me, please, because I'm truly not sure how I can help to make this world a better place, even in the smallest of ways.
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