Act!

Wow. It was already about a week since I wrote my last post. I noticed keeping the blog is very time consuming. But when I got feedback from other people, I guess I found a new meaning to writing the blog.

In my first post, I felt hopeless, like I couldn't help anybody even if I tried. I hated myself for not being able to help or trying to help and failing. But this past week, reading the comments, hearing how this blog changed their perception of not only me, but God, and by having a more positive outlook as a daily basis, I found how to help others. I found out that writing my grievances and thoughts in a readable and expressible form greatly helped others.

I found a new purpose for writing the blog.

Anyways, this past week was hectic with school and other activities. The only thing keeping me from giving up and going to sleep for that extra time and having that energy to push through and get work done was Reach on Friday night.

Reach, with out a doubt, was a spiritually moving event. But there was something more. It did not merely move me in my spiritual life, but it moved me on how I expressed it with other people.

I thought Reach would be like that normal praise night with songs and a couple bible verses recited here and there, but it wasn't that at all.

It taught me how blind we are as a society to the low class. The class of the homeless, the class of the needy, and most of all, the class made up of PEOPLE.

How blind can our society be to walk past a homeless on the streets as if walking past a statue? We walk past the homeless, we drive along the streets of the homeless, and we ignore the homeless.

What makes them different from you and me? I'm human. You're human. They are human. They are made up of the same body parts, the same bone structure, the same heart and soul. And yet we shun them from society.

We treat them as dirt. Filth. Rubble. In fact, we don't treat them as such because we don't acknowledge them. They are nothing. They are not worthy of our attention.

But are they worthy for God's? I believe that God thinks of the homeless just as much as you and me. You and me of the society, and the shunned homeless.

In God's eyes, we are the same. There is no society in which he labels us in. We are all children of God, but then why do we ignore and deny our fellow brothers and sisters? Why then do we walk past them to spend six dollars on Yogurtland when a single dollar can be a blessing to them? Why do we leave our brothers and sisters on the streets?

The message that was shared at Reach was different. Unlike all other messages about the homeless, the needy, the poor, this particular message invoked us to act rather than to merely watch.

The statistics given on the video he gave us and the video posted is scary. It's horrible knowing those numbers. "Oh my God" and "Wow" were most of the reactions. "Oh my God" what? This is the world you live in. This is also the world you can CHANGE. But in order to change, we must first act.

Evan asks, "How do you change the world?"
God says, "One single Act of Random Kindness at a time."
Evan Almighty (2007)

We must be a society willing to do that random act of kindness. We must break the walls of our society down and change the world.

But in order to change the world, we must first change ourselves. Change ourselves from an elite society blinded by selfishness to an aware group of people holding each other up reguardless of color, age, whether they are dirty or clean, whether they have nice clothes or have messy clothes, whether they are enemies, we must be one nation unified without hate, without discrimination, without criticism.

Don't worry, I'll fix whatever doesnt make sense in the morning. hahaha

Phil