It is wonderful world and life is beautiful. But there is also a lot to make one sad. Like, billions of people live on but a dollar a day while a few have billions and still want more. There is more than enough food for everyone yet there are millions dying from hunger and malnutrition. After all these years, man should already have learned the horrors of war and yet wars are continuously being waged against the weak. And in many places people are still being enslaved and trafficked, being sold and bought like they were just personal properties. And everywhere, people are discriminated against just because they are different.
It is a wonderful world and life is beautiful. If people would just open their eyes, they will see the utter beauty there is in nature: the flowers and the trees, the lakes and the seas, the skies and the wind. But we often end up thrashing and destroying nature. If people would just open their ears, they will be able to listen to the songs of the birds and the wind, the laughter and glee of children, the wisdom and love of those around them.
I will open my eyes and my heart so that I will see those whose only sustenance are the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table. I will open my ears and my hands to reach out to those who have no one to care for them but dogs who would lick their sores. I will not wait for someone to come back from the dead to tell me what the Lord wants for me to do in my life.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
The rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house,
for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them,
lest they too come to this place of torment.’
But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets.
Let them listen to them.’
He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham,
but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
Then Abraham said,
‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded
if someone should rise from the dead.’“
Luke 16:19-31