How can we continue on in our lives living a life geared towards gathering more things, more pointless, soulless stuff, when people with souls around us are being slaughtered everyday? People whose hearts are being broken and flesh is being ripped off of their bones? A mass of people around the world raped and ravaged by diseases that we in America, have the cure for. Eyes wide... closed, ears sewn... shut, we are crying out against their cries of anguish. "make it stop" we say, swatting at our faces as if their cries are like the annoying buzzing of a mosquito near our ears. Minds foreclosed as we are stuck and sucked further into the black hole of our own existence. Sucked further into a consumer environment where I am chief and what I want, and think I need, transcends all others. By the way, you might want to check that shirt you just bought, chances are, its dripping with blood and sweat poured out in vain by a modern day slave.

Maybe I am getting us wrong, maybe I am getting myself wrong, I mean, I cry when I am shown in vivid color the suffering and pain that people around the world go through. I am moved to do something in that moment and my friends are too. Yet what does it take to move us from the place of tears and idle promises before God and others that we will do something about the injustice around the world to actually doing something about it?

I believe it only takes one. It takes one being educated, one person inspired, one person willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of others freedom. It takes one talking to another and connecting with the people around them, taking all God-given unique gifts and using them to bring an end to this atrocity. It takes many people willing to embrace the one. The one that is around them. The homeless, the one in poverty, the orphan, the trafficked, the broken-hearted. These are the ones with broken souls

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." Mother Teresa