Lenten Reflections #1
During Lent, the Church gives a lot of emphasis to three things: prayer, fasting and charity. Prayer mends any disruptions in our relationship with God; fasting helps us to be more in control of ourselves; charity enables us to love others as ourselves.
Though selfishness and greed controls the chunk of our daily activities, amazingly humanity also spend enormous resources towards helping those in need. In fact, I am confident that I am not over-stretching when I say that it might be impossible to find a human being who hasn't done a charitable thing at least once in their lifetime. But rather than focussing on those numerous occasions when we all have helped others, I would like to reflect upon those few instances when we failed to help those in need, especially those instances when the means to help were already available at our disposal.
Though selfishness and greed controls the chunk of our daily activities, amazingly humanity also spend enormous resources towards helping those in need. In fact, I am confident that I am not over-stretching when I say that it might be impossible to find a human being who hasn't done a charitable thing at least once in their lifetime. But rather than focussing on those numerous occasions when we all have helped others, I would like to reflect upon those few instances when we failed to help those in need, especially those instances when the means to help were already available at our disposal.
