What is my responsibility…

I think my previous post -all the one-liners- was a moment of avoidance. To say it more positively it was a moment for processing.

The middle chapters of The Hole in Our Gospel were tough reading for me. Tough because they took me on a painful journey into the lives of billions (billions with a ‘b’) of people in my world who are barely eking out a living, if you can call their life a living.

And if reading the stories and statistics weren’t enough… I received a dvd from World Vision Tuesday. The 14-minute video chronicled 5-days in the life of a family from drought-stricken Turkana, Kenya. Sensitively portrayed, yet powerfully honest.

I can't shake the thought that God wants me to do something.

Writing that last line reminded me of a quote from Rich Stern: It is not our fault that people are poor, but it is our responsibility to do something about it.

My insides cry, “what is my responsibility…”