If you're not part of the solution......Then you're part of the problem.
By: Betsy McGee
Ok, so this past weekend I helped with a fund raiser for a soup kitchen in Limon, Honduras. The goal of the kitchen is to feed over 80 orphans and widows 2 meals a week along with an age-appropriate multi-vitamin. The main purpose of this past fund raiser was to earn enough to build a permanent indoor kitchen since the outdoor kitchen they had been using was washed away in the last round of hurricanes. This is not such an extraordinary thing to try to accomplish.
However, there are anti-soup kitchen-ers, who say we should be directing this humanitarian effort towards our own. Our own what? We're all humans, right? The first part of the word "humanitarian"...? You guessed it! Oh, you mean Americans? Like the homeless people who stand at traffic lights begging for money and by doing so make more a year than I do and I have 2 jobs? Or the hurricane victims who spent their government checks on flat screen TVs?
I say this, not to judge, but to make a point. We as Americans have become a self-involved nation full of self-involved people. We only concern ourselves with others who may directly affect our own lives. Not that it's not justified from time to time, but it's that old "squeaky wheel gets the attention."
I first got involved with the soup kitchen a little over two years ago, a little at a time, as I was asked to help. One day I realized that I was miserable. So, I took some time to think and realized that if I could be unhappy here in America, where almost anything I could want is at my disposal, then I would never be happy with anything I did. So, I jumped in, both feet first, to help these people who never asked for it and always seemed to be smiling.
Helen Keller once said, "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." People, she was deaf and blind, what's your excuse?