Last sunday I went to church for the first time in a few years and it kind of opened my eyes. It helped me in a way because lately I have been thinking of many things all at once, the bad and the good and the things we could change in the world. Overwhelming. The topic that this curch chose to dicuss was greed. Just one topic to think about. One membebr of the curch chose to discuss this and relate it to passages of the bible. "There is more happiness in giving then in recieving" and that the more you have should make the more you give that much more. In the generation we live in today people have ridicoulous amounts more then people in the past yet this generation gives the least out of any previous generations. This really made me think. This generation is filled with so much more bad then good in my opinion. Greed consumes so many people these days, and it is hard to come across a kind hearted generous person. We might not notice it but it is in little acts that we make the biggest ones. Sharing, giving, and even contributing are said today as unimportant or not worth it, whats in it for you right? I beleive it is in this mind set this is one of the ways we are slowly detroying the good in the world. Without giving and recieving, there will be nothing at all. There was a time when poverty had fallen upon one city in the world, even with this grief upon them they took into account to make sure they were contributing to there comunity and giving the necesairy amout to the people less fourtunate knowing that someday they will recieve something in return. Now we won't even so much as glance at a beggar on the street, someone we know is so much worse off then we are. The extremities in the day and time we live in repulse me. Even my living repulses me sometimes. Who am I to say I am unhappy with what I have when I have a house to live in, an amazing family that loves me and cares for me and watches out for me, and opourtunities that excede my wildest dreams. I may not have unlimited amounts of money, but I have everything I need and more to survive and there are people out there who have to spend a whole day trying to find the next place they will chose to sleep, or where there next meal will come from. Haha, here I go again, overwhleming myself. Okay so heres the deal, I beleive that I can make a difference in this world, now I know that people always try to convince other people to to the same but in the long run you can only get so far. People as individuals must be driven and willing to give and not always expect something in return, and I beleive it is a good habit to get into. What goes around comes around. I know I can not force you to do antyhing but I know the next time I can helo someone, or give someone something they need, I will try with my best ability to do so.
"One time, I was volenteering at Silome mission around chirstmas time, as we went along seeing the same homeless man after homeless man pass me in line, the line stops and there is a break in the order.
All of a sudden this man with rosey red cheeks and a navy blue touque pops out from behind the wall, one of the happiest smiles on his face that ive ever seen on a face and he starts singing to us.
A french melody and we can do nothing but smile, and hand him his food before he goes and sits down, speading his joy to anyone who will willingly recieve it.
He gave all he has to us."
"After everyone that day had been served, one aboriginal lady came up to the counter,
now the people constisting of our kitchen staff were about ten students from our school, some kind twenty some year olds and the old ladies of the kitchen staff.
All different ages and people, came together for one cause, to give to others.
Anyways, she came up to us and said: excuse me, I am really very hungry can I have some more food? Please? I really am hungry.
Although we all have different hearts, I could feel everybody's breaking in that moment, when you are running this kind of orginization, you are not allowed to give more to one person then another, seconds are prohibited, ones ticket per person, one meal per person.
the reason we had come out to do this and we could not meet the needs of others who could not meet thier own, having to say no to that lady was one of the most aweful feeling I have ever felt, as I looked around, I saw the mirrored reflection on defeat and pity in other peoples faces as in my own, and together we looked into each others eyes, and our heads sunk in shame.."
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