As i looked out of the window, i noticed a quite sober looking man rummaging through the trash bins. It saddened me to see this fellow actually eat some discarded food he found. I have no idea what his story might be, but i was left wondering how he might have come to this desperate state, and how he might be saved from this.
Life does not treat people equally or fairly. We have all been dealt a different lot in life, good or bad we all must learn to accept and deal with it. By accepting, i'm not saying our future can't change, it can change with much effort, or even despite our own effort quite dramatically. I think of the Eddy Murphy film 'Trading Places' where two lives were turned upside down by a bet made between two businessmen. Quite cruel when i come to think of it, how another person's actions, perhaps even someone unknown to us can make a decision that in effect destroys another's life.
So, this fellow rummaging through the trash for food. Did he decide to choose this lifestyle for himself? I highly doubt so. So what were the circumstances that brought him here. Was he a married man who's wife left him and who lost his motivation to work? Did the bank take his home away because he couldn't make the mortgage payments? Or is he a victim of a series of events which caused his life to just crumble...?
Last night at the Tartu film festival i watched a film called Fly fly Ladybug about a lady who could not cope with raising her kids due to an abusive husband. She started off with good intentions as a loving and caring mother, until life threw quite a number of unjust turns to her life. Perhaps you can call them bad choices, choosing an abusive man, yet all the choices were intended for good, to cope and hopefully to improve the quality of het kid's lives, kids she loved very much. Eventually the courts ruled that whe is an unfit parent and took her kids away, not once but three times.
The pain of loosing her loved ones caused her in despertation to behave quite erratically. Unforunately her behavior just isolated her more from the hope of getting her kids back. A relatively stable person had become unfit due to circumstances outside her control.And society so quickly labeled her, judged her to be someone who whe really wasn't or at least didn't want to be. It's a vicious circle so difficult to break out of...
It's said that God is a God of grace. So how is God's grace imparted to the lives or an abused mother or a hungry homeless man? Some say God looks after those who look after themselves. God help us, as we all need a helping hand sometimes. So it is when we see someone in need, we should take care to note that we ourselves are His hands and His feet. It is we, who have been entrusted to impart His grace.
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