need

They have a need.  They need food.  They need clothes.  They need a bath.  They need a home.  They need us to help them.  They need us.  Whether in Russia, Nicaragua, or Westport, they need us.

But, what we often overlook is this: we need them as well.

Imagine a world, a utopia, where everyone had everything that they needed.  We would never be able to help anyone because no one would need help.  No one would appreciate anything because no one would have ever have experienced want.  We would simply be consumers, blindly doing what ever we wanted with all of our abundance.  It would be the most self consumed of all possible lives.

So, we need them.  We need them so that we can learn to be generous.  We need them so that we can learn to live outside of ourselves.   We need them so that we can learn to be grateful for what we have.  We need them to help us learn to be kind.

Need goes both ways.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.