However when a lack of caring and a lack of genuine love becomes so ordinary, it is also time, with your lit candle, to curse the darkness. It is part of the darkness when the poor and homeless, who also carry around with them the image of God, are blamed and not helped. It is very dark when survival of the fittest is justified as tough love. A prophetic witness is the act of love of last resort. I m not talking of ranting about locusts and plagues.
Locusts are rare around here.
I am talking about saying something to your neighbours, your friends, our leaders and even to each other. Your financial support of works such as Bethlehem Place is the first act of love. Giving of yourself in volunteer service to those in need is the second act. It is this last act of love which may be the most difficult because it risks your credibility and your reputation. Saying the unpopular is necessary when darkness is normal, when evil is ordinary, when suffering is just the way it is, and when traffic signals are required and meeting basic human needs is optional.