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Keeping Our Center ~ Day 110

First world problems… that’s what I was thinking about on Monday morning while I was waiting for our internet to be repaired. We’d had no service for over 24 hours. None of us could work, or watch TV, or check Facebook, or anything! (I’m now imagining your horrified shriek, “Oh no! You poor things!”) I went to the neighbors to send my Sunday reflections. My daughter went to her boyfriend’s house to continue editing a research paper. And, Julie actually went in to work Monday (for the first time in about six months) so she could get something done.

Seriously, if this is the worst thing that happens to us this week, we’re golden. But it has caused me to think deeper… did you know:

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More than 9 million children in the U.S. lack internet service for at-home learning during this pandemic.

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One hundred fifty million people around the world are homeless.

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821 million people in the world go to bed hungry every night.

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Worldwide, 780 million people do not have access to an improved water source.  

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Over 800,000 children under 5 die every year from diseases created by this lack of safe water.

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And, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation. 

I am staggered by the numbers. They are almost inconceivable to me. Many people would say we are blessed to have all the things we have, but I won’t because that suggests all those millions of people are struggling because God didn’t bless them. More mental gymnastics I just can’t do.

“May we recall,” writes author, Pico Iyer, “that the responsibility of the fortunate is to answer the prayers of others.” What if this were our intent on a daily basis, to somehow make ourselves available to answer the prayers of another? To remain open to the nudgings of the Spirit? Maybe it would look like a phone call to someone who is lonely, a blanket to someone who is cold, a kind word to someone who is hurting, a donation of food to someone who is hungry, a listening ear to someone who is struggling, a gift of money to a worthy cause. We never really know what innocuous thing we do might fill a need or comfort a heart. 

Perhaps we can’t answer everyone’s prayer, but if each person were the answer to one other prayer, one other cry of the heart, the world would be a much better place.

Love & Light!

Kaye