We often feel sympathy for people worse off than ourselves but feelings are hardly any good if they do not drive us to actually do something to help; to take the situation into our own hands and provide warmth for those left out in the cold.

The hero is not the man/woman who’s standing still, wringing their hands, worrying about how much pain the abandoned are experiencing. The hero is the one who sets out to share, thus minimizing the pain.

Nurturing by a parent is not achieved by simply hoping that the child would grow up with a sound moral base, but making sure that no hurdles are placed in the way of the child’s development. Similarly, world growth and the advancement of smaller, poorer nations, depend on what we do here in the mightier West.

Because we have achieved more in the West, and have been allowed to grow bigger and develop faster, our nations are able to recklessly and limitlessly consume, and demand so much at a cheap price, that the rest of the world has to bow to our collective whim. We now have the power to tell them how much we think their produce is worth, and how much we’re prepared to pay. They like children, subjected to the power of a tyrant parent, have no choice but to acquiesce.

While it is totally acceptable to reach high for our goals and to strive for higher things, is it right for our advancement to come at a price of others worse off than ourselves?

There is enough on earth for us all. God has given us an abundance of wealth, beauty, and food to satisfy all the people of the entire earth. His plan I’m sure was not for the rich to covet it all

We have chosen to leave others in the dark, hungry, naked, and to scavenge the earth, while we stuff our bodies with so much food that we become deformed with fat and overweight with guilt. So cheap is the food we consume, that we’re now eating portions big enough to feed 3 people. We gorge ourselves, and ravage everything around us as though cursed, yet we crave…

And crave…

And consume…

Venting the curse.

The wonders of the earth are innumerable, the natural phenomenon mind-boggling. The beauties of our world surpass our thoughts and our technological advances are unbelievable. Nevertheless, we choose not to see how lop-sided we in the West have become, as we steadily allow our beautiful earth to dissolve into vapour, ever so slowly fizzling out, poof…

In this link below, there is a totally remarkable video show (courtesy of the Life Boat Foundation) about our beautiful and amazing world. As we watch the show, let us ponder this magnificent gift we have received and consider the peoples of this earth whose growth are stunted because we prefer to literally eat ourselves to death rather than equally share around the earth’s wealth and allow them to grow.

Let us ponder on all the different pairs of shoes and the numerous clothes we demand that they make cheaply for us so that we could rot them in our heavily pregnant wardrobes. Look at the lights of the West (in the video show) and see how significant this is to the contrasting darkness of the other parts of the world and think, “maybe if I paid just 5% more for my bananas, a farmer could make a few hundred more to feed his family and pay the rent for the field in which he grows the food I demand to buy cheaply.”