So many human tragedies occur around the world in a given year that it is impossible to know of all of them, and of the ones well known, sometimes they seem so great that many minds just shut them out. Yesterday, Haiti, today Chile, everyday Darfur. And the ever present tragedy of our own mentally and emotionally wounded "street people." The tragedy of one human being is the tragedy of all human beings.
There is so little we can actually do to relieve the suffering of these tragedies: the St Maria of Paris centre in Victoria, donations for Haiti, Project Mexico and a thousand others, seek to do as much as they can. Sometimes all we can do is acknowledge in our hearts the tragedies of our fallen humanity, but it also would not be without significance for each of us to light a candle in church in prayer for the people who are suffering and to offer special prayers for each of the events we are aware of, as a way of acknowledge our common humanity, the fact that all mankind shares in a common human nature that binds us together, that every human being is God's creation and each bears not only the wounds of the fall, but also the image and likeness of God.
It is not possible that a prayer offered in love will have no effect, no matter how unseen. Whatever else we can do, and actually undertake, lets all light a candle, from the heart, for those enduring these tragedies.
Vladiko Lazar.
I Think this is the truth
Posted by: Jean | February 28, 2010 at 10:05 AM