so this morning I'm riding over to chapel with Sarah and as we pass one of the gated communities here in Rochester she points out this enormous house that is valued at around 5 million dollars. Their driveway is heated(so that ice never forms on it)! She shared with me how a company she works for, Red-Nose Lighting, decorated their house at Christmas time this year for $3 grand. and as I'm hearing this and seeing this house, I'm thinking...here these people are living in this enormous house with a heated driveway and yet there are still so many people out in this world that are homeless, starving, sick, and dying. and then this gets me to thinking, so many times I think about how I have to scrape by just in order to get my bills paid and sometimes it is so frustrating and stressful but how much more do I have then those living in a third world country?. I have things that some of them only dream about.
Remembering the time I spent in India last spring I can recall how little most of those people had and yet they were still so willing to share it with us; and how small their homes were and yet they would pack people in for prayer and service meetings.
When you think about it, if the wealthy in this world would live more like the average person and even if the average person would give up a little extra cash instead of splurging on something frugle...we could end poverty. But we are too selfish and so I don't see poverty ever being ended. I just don't see mankind being that selfless. It's definately a tragedy that plagues mankind.
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