I know that, but for me it really hits hard if I stop and think about this moment cause its happening right now. In the same moment you have a generation who is sitting around entertaining themselves watching reality television (which to be honest is anything but real), while you have a child who is being prostituted behind closed doors and robbed of their innocence. Its not fair that we can go about consuming every single material option that comes our way, while the widow and orphan are stripped of life's basic dignities because they're victims of a conflict that simply isn't theirs. It's not fair that there is a generation who are choking on their obesity while at the same time there are 30,000 children who will die today for lack of food. Its not fair that we have no problem going about spending 3 or 4 dollars on what is basically glorified tap water in a bottle with a fancy label while you have entire communities suffering at the hands of disease because the only water that they have access to is foul and polluted. It's not fair that we can sing and dance and jump around in our freedom and in our liberty while at the same time the slave remains captive out of sight and out of mind. It's not fair that we can sit and watch the evening news from the comfort of our living rooms and pity those who lived where the storms hit or the ground shook or where the water rose and simply feel sorry for them and then change the channel and get on with supper. Is it fair to walk past the homeless man and give him nothing in the assumption that he will spend it on booze or cigarettes or suggest that he go out and get a job. I mean, who are we to judge the alcoholic or the prostitute or the addict or the criminal as if we were any better? Who are we to forget the downtrodden or the oppressed or the marginalized while we go about chasing the dream? We see this imbalance and we go "man that's not right, that's not fair". A little too often that's all we do, because for us to do a little more is actually going to cost us something. And if that's where it ends, perhaps its fair to say that when we ignore the prostitute and child, that we actually lend our hand to their abuse. That when we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive that it's us who is entrapping them. That when we forget the refugee, that it's us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and needy, that we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own." -Were All in this Together Hillsong United http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4NlyZqJhwk
