Out here in India that rumblings of the 1% and the 99% are faintly heard. The morning papers have a slow drip of info about them. I wonder how many papers in the west have stories about the street struggles we have here. Its not only pepper spray - people often lose life and limb to the brutalities of security forces of various stripes.
We live in a sea of poverty and basically close our eyes daily to the desperate struggle people have around us to survive.
Here is a short note (clearly for a western audience) but one that we have to admit fits us to:
To the last line you can add that if you are reading this message on the Chai Chats site - then you have another feather in your cap - many who can read do not have access to the internet. Slap another 1.5 billion or so to that number...
We have so much to be grateful for.
The Good Book says is succinctly. Godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6.6
We live in a sea of poverty and basically close our eyes daily to the desperate struggle people have around us to survive.
Here is a short note (clearly for a western audience) but one that we have to admit fits us to:
To the last line you can add that if you are reading this message on the Chai Chats site - then you have another feather in your cap - many who can read do not have access to the internet. Slap another 1.5 billion or so to that number...
We have so much to be grateful for.
The Good Book says is succinctly. Godliness with contentment is great gain. I Timothy 6.6
Absolutely! We are so blessed at so many levels-and it is all of God's grace. Nothing we have done But we can share and walk with those who are in hard places, as you do. God bless you.
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