Please please watch the above video. Put everything in perspective and understand the world from a new angle. We are blessed in everything that our bodies can do. We take for granted the most miraculous things. Every chance I get, I thank God that I can see in color, that I can dance to the beat of music, that I have the ability to walk. If even one of those things was taken away from me, my world would seem less bright, less cheerful. I don't know if people with different abilities than I have see the world that way (it wouldn't be fair of me to say whether of not they do), but if that is the case, why would we make their world a bad place to be? We should be helping them, we should not be putting stumbling blocks before the blind (literally and figuratively) and we should not be cursing the deaf. Instead, we should be doing our best to be inclusive and helpful towards those who need so badly to be included and helped.
Day 59: Standing Up for Justice
Everyone today is an advocate. I don't know a single person who hasn't felt strongly about a cause and tried to change it. Whether the cause is Israel, or anywhere on the political spectrum, we learn from Moses to stand up for justice.
Moses saw injustice in how his people were being treated as slaves, this led him to kill the Egyptian overseer. Moses saw injustice in how female shepherds were being treated by male shepherds in Midian, this caused him to fight on the womens' behalf and water their flocks.
Moses' actions teach us three things: 1) stand up when you see an injustice being committed; 2) involve yourself in fighting injustice (whether it is a fellow Jew who is being hurt or whether it is non-Jews who are being oppressed); and 3) don't rely on a single strategy when fighting injustice, use whatever strategy is appropriate.
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