I am currently reading, Mountains beyond Mountains, a biography about Dr. Farmer, a man with a quest to care for the world's poor, this excerpt pertains to the poignant topic of sharing our resources and discoveries:
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How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant, as Farmer would later explain, "God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us."
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Wow, this is powerful. God, may I not take my life and resources forgranted. Give me courage to reach out and share.
2 comments:
Farmer is quite the bad A, no? Although I always notice the immediate family situations being rather 'unnormal'-though I can't tell if this is good or bad.
i echo your prayer, dear friend and sister.
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