Who are the faces we choose to ignore?
They are small children in distant lands; digging through trash, begging for money, serving perverted masters and living day to day not knowing when the next meal will come.
They are people dying of AIDS, famine and wars they never asked to be a part of. They are refugees without a home and prostitutes searching for their heart.
They are men and women trapped in ritualistic religions, bound by superstitions and enslaved to evil.
They are your neighbors, coworkers and family members suffering with guilt, shame and addictions; living self-serving lives driven by money, success and notoriety.
They are the homeless on the sidewalk, the punk kids in the parking lot and the single mother working two jobs.
They are the ones that are harder to love, out of your realm of comfort and messy to get involved with. They may ruin your life, take advantage of you, demand your money, your time and your thoughts.
They are the abandoned and forgotten ones, suffering in their sins – or maybe some of ours. We avert our eyes and disengage our hearts. For what? To live “our” life? To live up to certain expectations? To keep things simple and neat?
They may steal your dreams, invade your home and change what you consider “normal”. They may alter your plans, re-engage your heart and teach you more about life and love than you ever could have imagined.
They are the ones that reflect the heart of God and “they” are meant to be an intimate part of “we”.
