a beautiful mess

what do i think followers of yeshua should do in response to the incredible and devastating situation overtaking haiti? i think we should do nothing out of the ordinary for a child of YHWH. don’t do anything that would not be second nature for a “little-messiah”, a christian.

which is another way of saying: we should continue to be wounded healers.

wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to think differently in order to find ways to respond to the people and communities of haiti. shouldn’t it be just like christ-followers to be the first to serve, give, and be love?

would it even need to make the news when people who said they wanted to be like their messiah just kept on living that way? as if it were an extension of who they were – it’s like they’re just waiting for another opportunity to feed the hungry and BOOM! haiti shows up on the map; waiting for an opportunity to care for the widows and BOOM! haiti is all of the sudden filled with widows and orphans; longing to give their money and resources to a cause and a face instead of a vault and interest rate and BOOM! haiti, haiti, haiti.

(which isn’t to say these opportunities haven’t existed less than five miles from where they are, but remember, they’re already doing these things (these followers of yeshua) and so it’s just second nature to reach out when mass devastation overtakes a people)

we are given images (by way of stories and teachings) of what the kingdom of heaven looks like and is to look like: we should be a kingdom that gives to the needy, loves their enemies, and prays for those who persecute them. sadly, we often look like and respond as a kingdom that prays for the needy, hates our enemies and loves those who bless us.

haiti right now is a hell of a place in need of heaven: that is, she is being overwhelmed by fear and death; she needs hands to deliver peace and hearts that revive. she is void of financial and basic resources; she needs our money and water. look at the photos, she is scattered and broken; she needs a community who is sent together to heal.

now i do confess, i don’t always know exactly how to do what i want to do – and i, alone, certainly can’t do everything. but those things i can do, i should do. we’re not all going to hop a flight to haiti and clean wounds or look into a child’s face: but some of us should, and i would argue that all of us should at least have the desire to want to be there – and that desire should fuel us to look for opportunities and creative ways to serve and give to those in need.

give to those in need. it’s like i always get hung up on what i can’t do. well so what. i can’t hop a flight and move to haiti for a year. but i can seek out someone who is able to do that and maybe support them, get the word out, and send them. i can donate my money to providing some basic resources. i can dontate my time to praying – which i belive to be a vital part of bringing the kingdom of heaven to the hells on earth and in our lives. i can give to those in need. and i should.

so. here’s a list to get you, and all of us, started in truly moving forward: actually doing something of consequence: bringing the kingdom: hopefully doing nothing different, just being exactly who we claim to be: followers of yeshua, children of YHWH, and people who live and breathe heaven.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582902,00.html?mep

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