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The Biggest Crime in the History of the Universe?

Deep personal wounds skew our ability to keep things in perspective, leading us to assess the goodness or badness of the world from our own vantage point. Michael Devita should be given a lot of slack for his wildy-out-of-perspective comment about financier Bernie Madoff's misdeeds. Speaking as one of Madoff's victims, Devita says, "this is the biggest crime in the history of the universe." 

Really? 

I don't even need to mention the many bigger crimes that immediately come to my mind--although I will highlight one: that today 25,000 -30,000 children will die of hunger or poverty related issues. Who's speaking up for them? Who's crying out about that injustice?

Someone once said that wounded people are the most dangerous. The desire for vengeance makes fools of us all. Let's ask ourselves about what wounds are skewing our perspective. Jesus repeatedly spoke about forgiveness and leaving vengeance to God. May we do so . . . and may we see our personal hurts in light of the larger hurts of the world.

World Hunger Increases 10% in One Year

The United Nations recently announced that 100 million more people this year are in a daily struggle against malnutrition. 100 million people. If that number of people were grouped together, it would form the 12th largest country in the world--just behind Mexico and in front of the Philippines.

Quoting from Wired PR News:

Josette Sheeran of the Rome based U.N. agency, the World Food Program, is further quoted by the AP as stating, “A hungry world is a dangerous world… Without food, people have only three options: They riot, they emigrate or they die. None of these are acceptable options.”

Hunger, of course, has been on the rise in the US over the last year or two, with food banks reporting great rises in the demand or their services.

N. T. Wright has said and written in multiple places, that God calls his people to bring the healing love of Christ to the place where the world is most in pain. Blessings upon all God's co-workers who are helping the hungry, one at a time.