"Yea, he saw great inequality among the people, some lifting themselves up with their pride, despising others, turning their backs upon the needy and the naked and those who were hungry, and those who were athirst, and those who were sick and afflicted."
Alma 4:12
Alma seems very distressed by this, but I think sometimes that we have become desensitized to it. Inequality is all around us. We're used to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and the gap between people ever widening. I wonder what it would be like to live in a society that *wasn't* filled with inequality. Where there were no street people, because we took care of them. Where we had no need for homeless shelters, because we sheltered them. Wouldn't it be nice going through your daily life, knowing that other people were watching out for you, instead of perhaps trying to take advantage of you, or even just where we helped each other instead of scrambling to individually make ends meet? As we go throughout our lives today, let's try to imagine the things that would change... and to the best of our ability, let's change our actions to conform to that dream. :)
Alma 4:12
Alma seems very distressed by this, but I think sometimes that we have become desensitized to it. Inequality is all around us. We're used to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, and the gap between people ever widening. I wonder what it would be like to live in a society that *wasn't* filled with inequality. Where there were no street people, because we took care of them. Where we had no need for homeless shelters, because we sheltered them. Wouldn't it be nice going through your daily life, knowing that other people were watching out for you, instead of perhaps trying to take advantage of you, or even just where we helped each other instead of scrambling to individually make ends meet? As we go throughout our lives today, let's try to imagine the things that would change... and to the best of our ability, let's change our actions to conform to that dream. :)
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