Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you know they are up to it again. They being Compassion; it being a blogging trip to an impoverished country.
I followed the first trip pretty closely - I added all the bloggers into my Google reader, cried with their stories, and at the end of it all, sponsored another child.
But like everything else, I just get so used to seeing stuff that I fail to be moved by it anymore. The subsequent trips didn't really make that much of an impact on me. You know how you see a commercial so many times you just don't even notice it anymore? That's kind of what happened with me and this whole Compassion thing.
Honestly, sometimes I wonder if Compassion has over-saturated the market.
There. I said it.
Sometimes I have to work at having compassion; sometimes it simply doesn't come as easily as I want it to come; sometimes I have to make myself read the stories.Sometimes I have to care even when I don't feel like it.
Are you like me at all? I really hope not; that is, I hope compassion comes more easily to you than it does to me. But if you are, could I just ask you to consider reading these stories one more time? Would you subscribe to the blogs (you can undo this later, you know; people do it to me all the time), read their stories, and allow yourself to see what they see?
And then, would you consider if God is asking you to think a little more about this than you are typically prone to do? That's all I'm asking - try to see it...to try to hear it.
