Moral Conscience?

I find it interesting

(or perhaps more honestly, disturbing)

that (some) people do not hesitate

to like, share, repost, forward or promote

those things which express their

opinions or annoyances about things

which make relatively no difference in the world.

Yet, mostly, ignore

those things which, perhaps,

prick the moral conscience

and might be the very thing God is using

to nudge them into action.

There are people all around us

who need our help every day.

We have neighbors who are on

the verge of becoming homeless,

friends who can't pay their bills,

family members who are struggling to feed their children,

and members of our communities who are homeless;

all living quietly on the fringes,

hoping that nobody will notice, 

yet at the same time, 

hoping that someone will;

not openly admitting their situation to the people

who claim to love them

because those are the same people

 calling others in similar situations,

“Lazy, low-life scum who think the world owes them something 

and who abuse the system in order to stay where they are.”

(As if poverty is something people aspire to).

Sure, there are a few who have learned how to

 “abuse the system”,

but I say that they are the exception and not the rule.

And I am willing to bet that there are just as many,

if not more, people at the other end of the 

social/economic/political spectrum, 

the mega-rich, 

who have used and abused far more

 to get to where they are

and continue to do so on a daily basis 

in order to maintain their positions.

I submit that if those on that end of the spectrum

would give just a portion of their excess

to those at the other end of the spectrum,

the need for welfare and 

assistance programs in America

would cease.

And if every one of us

would give something to the person next to us

who has less than we do,

 homelessness and hunger

 would end in America as well.

In short, if we

loved one another

and took care of the least among us

just as Jesus commanded.

Instead, it appears, 

that we would rather go on with our lives,

 perfectly content with

 the yearly bag of canned goods 

we donate to the local food drive,

the loose change we drop into the red bucket,

the shoe box we fill and ship overseas,

and the angel or two we pull off the tree;

feeling satisfied that we have

“done our part”,

all the while willing that 

annoying little prick of moral conscience

to simply shut up and go away!