Liberties

While listening to Larry King Live today I heard Bono talk about the new RED campaign. Bono is always doing something to help fight against inequality, against AIDS, against poverty in Africa. The list could go on and on. Today he talked about America and how he thought America means equality (in a summary of his words). Those words made me think. Being here in a foreign country, although I still love my mother country and am very thankful for all the freedoms it gives me, I hate it when people fantasize about how wonderful America is. Seriously, its not all its cracked up to be. But at the same time, it does give you more freedom than most other countries. It gives you more possibilities. It gives you equality. The question then becomes, what are all the Americans doing with that freedom, those possibilities, that equality? I ask you today, what are you doing with what God has given you by being born in America? If you have an American passport you have freedom like no other citizen has. Are you doing something to help those less fortunate than you? Are you giving of your time, money, resources? Are you aware of what's going on in the rest of the world. Pick your country, pick your passion, there are many choices. But don't just sit at home in America enjoying all the luxuries of life, not realizing there is a whole different world out there.

Here are some things you could start with
...until you find where your passion is.

Shop at Gap and buy RED products
Help bring clean water to Africa
Provide a bed for an orphan in Moldova
Stand up for liberty in SE Asia
Help end human rights violations
Support the orphans in Rwanda
Feed the hungry