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“Certainly it is true that behind every human being who cries out for help there may be a million or more equally entitled to attention,” writes Norman Cousins. “But this is the poorest of all reasons for not helping the person whose cries you hear…Reach out and take hold of the one who happens to be nearest. If you are never able to help or save another, at least you will have saved one.”
“He who oppresses the poor shows
— Proverbs 14:31 (NIV 1984)
Contempt for their maker,
but whoever is kind to the needy
honors God.”
Lord, help us not to be so overwhelmed by the enormity of the need that we do not minister to the one. Amen.