I don't feel like saving the world today. Sometimes I just want to play at the park or go for walks. I want to swim at the beach or watch movies. I want to lay on the couch and read mystery novels or bake cheesecake brownies. Sometimes I just don't feel like saving the world.
Sometimes I want to believe that people aren't hurting. I want to forget that there are sick, elderly people who live alone and have no company. I don't want to know that there are people my age with little girls who are dying of AIDS and worrying that they are a burden to their family.
I wish I could forget that there is never enough money for all of the needs, that people live in houses that aren't fit for the bugs that overtake them. I don't want to speak empty words of "We'll see" when the frailest of all want to come home from the nursing home.
I wish I had a prescription pad like the doctor. You have arthritis-here's a pill. You have an infection-here's an antibiotic. You need a wheelchair-here it comes. I don't have a prescription pad for loneliness, guilt, depression, or lack of resources. I wish I could write a prescription and say, "Here, now your children will come visit you. Oh, you're scared of dying, here's a pill for that."
I just don't feel like saving the world today.
"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them."
-Matthew 4:23-34
That's what I'll do, I'll bring them to You. I know that you didn't ask me to save the world, just to care for those who are here. So I'll care for them the best I can, and I'll bring them to you and lay them at your feet, the only place where healing takes place and all needs are met.
