WAKE UP ALL YOU SLEEPERS!

Since being in EL Salvador we have gone to the beach, waterfalls, and a lake.
 
I have seen some of the most beautiful countryside in the world and some of the biggest malls.
 
I have also seen poverty that is disgusting.
 
I have seen children begging outside of a grocery store.
 
I have seen babies struggling for breath from a sickness in their lungs.
 
I have seen children wrapped in so many bandages you can barely see their faces.
 
I have seen women right after losing their babies either to an abortion or to a miscarriage. 
 
I have walked into a room where joyful parents are holding their newborn babies getting ready to go home.
 
I have been handed a two-day-old baby to hold.
 
I have seen the smiles on the people’s faces as we pass them on the street.
 
I have seen a homeless woman who looks like she is 100 years old sitting on the sidewalk waiting for people to feed her.
 
I have been invited into a house church to listen to a sick pastor preach the good news in Spanish.
 
I have been convicted of my spoiled American ways.
 
I can’t go on pretending; I have seen too much.
 
My eyes have been opened to the hurting people of our world.

 
If I go home and don’t do anything then I am a hypocrite.
 
I have become disgusted by so many things I read online. They seem so petty now, but I was there. Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and the myriad of other time wasters.
 
American Christians, wake up! Get out of your apathetic state! This is my plea, don’t remain comfortably where you are. Do something to help others!
 
We have been called to something so much greater than sitting in church pews and tearing up at stories.

 
James 1:27 “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and windows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.