Maybe They Need the Hunger

Why are we so anxious to rescue people? More and more I feel uncomfortable with the idea that they even need help. This may sound heartless but what if hunger is necessary to prompt someone to better their own circumstances? Or what if the experience of being 'poor' leads to a creative idea that benefits others and provides abundance to the previously 'poor' person.

Why are we so arrogant to believe that our own lifestyle is what everyone should aspire to? Diversity is fine so long as you are not tainted with it.

Your preferences are your own. They do not need to be mine or that homeless guy's you see shuffling off to The Lords Diner for his next meal. We may not understand why a person would make the choices they do and experience the consequences that result from those choices but why do we think we have to?

Helpless creatures and people will always be the exception to this. No one wants another child being found starving in a closet. No one could agree that harming an animal is the right thing.

People living in other places, who do not choose to live like the majority of Americans, don't need missionaries looking to save them. It's possible they could use clean water, knowledge to help them provide for their own dinner table or a warm article of clothing. But they do not need their souls saved. Their souls are Jim Dandy. Their choices belong to them. Who or what they worship is not my business.

Sometimes life carries us to a place deeper and darker than we ever imagined so that we are then moved to look for the light. It isn't always possible to know the whys of these things. We just don't have a big enough perspective

Before you righteously open your wallet and hand the homeless guy 3 bucks for McDonalds, consider what the hunger might be teaching him. Perhaps the hunger will move him to better his circumstance or maybe not. Maybe he made a decision at the soul level to experience this. Help is not always the right option because in making the decision to help we are arrogantly assuming, because of our own limited perspective, that they need it. Maybe they need the hunger.