Crossing the Desert

[tabatha]

"Some people feel like we need our agricultural workers and should welcome them rather than reject them. Some people feel that we should make sure that our field workers are safe, well paid, and cared for medically; that their children are God’s children, the same as ours. Some people think that it is absurd that to save a life with water should be called littering, and think that Jesus should be at his wife’s side at her death and still be able to come back and provide for his daughter.

I suppose all of us identify with some people. But which people we identify with can make the difference between a world of love and peace or a world of exclusion and suffering, not to mention the health of our hearts and souls. Perhaps the new year is a good time to consider the occasional tension between laws and compassion, and which we want to opt for."

http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/28/crossing-desert/