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Responding to the Overwhelming Need

Jim posted this comment on Pray for Uganda:

Sometimes it is difficult to know which crisis to pay the most attention to. What have you two learned about how to cope with all the needs and then where to focus your efforts knowing that in doing so you are ignoring some other critical need?

It is as if our lives are in full time Triage mode since we now “know” what is happening and can’t always bury our heads in the sand.

Jim raises some great questions. Once we choose to become aware of the crushing need in the world around us, it changes and challenges us.

• How are you mentally and emotionally impacted by awareness of the suffering and injustice in our world? How do you cope with that impact?
• When you learn about a crisis or need, how do you formulate your response? How do you decide where to focus your efforts?

03-08-2007 |