Devotion-Friday, January 10th, 2025
By: Frances Taylor

REACHING OUT A WELCOMING HAND

Our world today has a surplus of displaced people - men, women, and children alike. Today's reading from exodus discusses this and the problems of widows and orphans and in very direct terms. We are not always welcome to immigrants and we often do not make life easy for widows or orphans. We have camps in many countries where families who are running from violence, oppression and extreme poverty are held. Often these camps are not places where children can learn, where adequate food or medicine is available and opportunities for work is limited. If it's not in our neighborhood do we even give it any thought? We may react with generosity when there is a catastrophe in a part of the world, but once another issues comes along do we think about the people who are suffering still?

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I hear a lot about rescuing animals, but not about rescuing people. There are children all over the world who are homeless, hungry, without the opportunity for education or medical care. This happens in the most developed and wealthy countries as well as in developing countries. In fact, in some of the poorest countries, families with little or nothing themselves will reach out to such orphans. I, myself have been the recipient of the generosity of people in Haiti and in Tanzania. We are all told we must be neighbor to others. Let us not be the ones who feel God's wrath when His children cry out for justice.

Your post is wonderful. I am so tired of ads to support the Christian Jewish Association. Peter, food for the homeless shelters for dogs and horses. We are ab boarding, and ignoring hundreds of thousands of children, human lives. It is a sinful tragedy. Thank you for bringing this to the forefront