Oblivious to the hungry children around the world.
Oblivious to the children selling themselves on the street for food.
Oblivious to the millions of orphans.
Oblivious to the people dying daily without Christ.
Oblivious that as a Christian I have been called to show God's love.
BUT I don't know that I have ever truly been oblivious to these needs even as a child.
I can remember when I was young people saying "finish your food because there are kids in Africa that won't eat today" or "be grateful for the shoes on your feet because there are some kids that don't have shoes". I remember someone once saying that the commercials on TV that showed poor, hungry, dying children was just a "scam". BUT those children were REAL.
So even at an early age I knew I had more than some people.
So why did it take three 10 day trips to Peru for me to see that I HAD to do SOMETHING?
It is something I must have always had known.
Kids were hungry as I ate my lunch at school.
REAL kids died as I watched them on my TV.
People entered hell while I was sitting on my church pew.
