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A house is not a home.
What does the word "home" mean to you ?
For some, it means belonging, security and comfort ... for some, it means that's where the family is ... for some, it means a place where fights and quarrels take place ... perhaps for a handful, it merely means 4 walls, no communication, no love ... and maybe yet for others, they ask, "What's home?"
It's sad to read 8 August ST about the elderlies who are left to fend on their own. They might have a house where they can reside in, but they cannot call that their home. Nobody seemed to care for them ... nobody seemed to notice them ... nobody seemed to be willing to spend time with them ... sad, isn't it ?
Unfortunately, as we progress in life, as technology advances, and we have the opportunity to receive better education, instead of becoming more compassionate and accomodating, we seemed to become more selfish and heartless - in our pursuit for "luxurious and better" living
"We have no time to look after you, so we have to put you in the home (for the aged) ...", "the maid will attend to your needs, please don't bother me ...", "what rights do you have to discipline my child?" ... "what? carry his/her desk from his/her classroom and do detention outside the office? What if he/she falls and injures himself/herself, who's going to be responsible?" Sounds familiar? Heard them before?
Sad, huh? That's why I have great respect for all the social workers who are willing to give their time, their efforts and their love to tirelessly help those who are unloved and uncared for by our society. It's not easy. And the mockery is that we need someone else to love those that we are actually supposed to be responsible for ... sigh*
Do you know that since the beginning of time, God's heart has always been moved to compassion by people who are oppressed ... those who are denied justice ... those who are "rejected" by society and the world? There are many records in the Bible, but I think I'll just quote one verse here ... "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." - James 1:27.
If you have a home where you can find warm, love, comfort - a place where you can belong to, be thankful. If you have families that you need to be responsible for, be thankful as well. May we in our blessedness also, not forget those around us who are deprived of such warm and love. Even if we are unable to reach out to them personally, may we remember to take time to say a prayer for them, that they may find a home - a place of warm, love and belonging, in the Lord.
This is one entry that I took the longest time to write - I guess I'm overcome by melancholy more than anything else ... but I hope as you find time to read what I've written, you will be challenged to allow your heart to beat with compassion in this buzzling, fast-moving world.
A house is not a home.
What does the word "home" mean to you ?
For some, it means belonging, security and comfort ... for some, it means that's where the family is ... for some, it means a place where fights and quarrels take place ... perhaps for a handful, it merely means 4 walls, no communication, no love ... and maybe yet for others, they ask, "What's home?"
It's sad to read 8 August ST about the elderlies who are left to fend on their own. They might have a house where they can reside in, but they cannot call that their home. Nobody seemed to care for them ... nobody seemed to notice them ... nobody seemed to be willing to spend time with them ... sad, isn't it ?
Unfortunately, as we progress in life, as technology advances, and we have the opportunity to receive better education, instead of becoming more compassionate and accomodating, we seemed to become more selfish and heartless - in our pursuit for "luxurious and better" living
"We have no time to look after you, so we have to put you in the home (for the aged) ...", "the maid will attend to your needs, please don't bother me ...", "what rights do you have to discipline my child?" ... "what? carry his/her desk from his/her classroom and do detention outside the office? What if he/she falls and injures himself/herself, who's going to be responsible?" Sounds familiar? Heard them before?
Sad, huh? That's why I have great respect for all the social workers who are willing to give their time, their efforts and their love to tirelessly help those who are unloved and uncared for by our society. It's not easy. And the mockery is that we need someone else to love those that we are actually supposed to be responsible for ... sigh*
Do you know that since the beginning of time, God's heart has always been moved to compassion by people who are oppressed ... those who are denied justice ... those who are "rejected" by society and the world? There are many records in the Bible, but I think I'll just quote one verse here ... "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." - James 1:27.
If you have a home where you can find warm, love, comfort - a place where you can belong to, be thankful. If you have families that you need to be responsible for, be thankful as well. May we in our blessedness also, not forget those around us who are deprived of such warm and love. Even if we are unable to reach out to them personally, may we remember to take time to say a prayer for them, that they may find a home - a place of warm, love and belonging, in the Lord.
This is one entry that I took the longest time to write - I guess I'm overcome by melancholy more than anything else ... but I hope as you find time to read what I've written, you will be challenged to allow your heart to beat with compassion in this buzzling, fast-moving world.
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