I have
supported KUHF, the local public radio station, since 1986. This is part of
Christine and my regular giving. The station us currently going through an 8
day (twice a year) solicitation campaign to raise new pledges/donors. I was surprised
to hear that only 8% of the listeners give all of the support. In other words,
92% get the perks but not the drawbacks. I am sure a few do not have the
resources, but I suspect most do.
This got me
to thinking.
If those who
let others carry the freight would pony up support, we could have 14 or so of
our days of broadcasting back without the beg-a-thon (necessary, but not very
lovable.)
What would
the world be like if we had a tenfold increase in our investment and presence
in marriage or church or PTO or the poor? I suspect it would be more like what
God had envisioned.
Where are
you the 8% in your life – supporting others, and maybe, a bit resentful? Where
are you the 92% - being carried by others, and maybe, burning them out as a
result? What do you think God thinks about that? What will you do? Ask God to
heal you.
What more
would God do through us? Might we not be living in something much more like
Paradise?
Even while
we were with you, we gave you this command: "Those unwilling to work will
not get to eat." 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NLT)
Share each
other's burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 (NLT)
The most powerful person is he who is able
to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends
his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor Adorno
Theodor Adorno
No one is useless in this world who
lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of
trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of
impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things
possible.
Thomas a Kempis
Thomas a Kempis
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