Nights Like Tonight

What is it about nights like tonight?  They seem like they are crying out.  The beauty is so intense.  I was standing out on my back deck just looking up at the sky and there seemed to be a glow among the darkness.  The peacefulness was almost audible.  The cool air wrapped around me, but even in all of this peace and beauty my thoughts were of the poor and hurting. 

My mind was downtown thinking of those kids we hang out with during Servant Saturdays.  What does their world look like tonight?  What’s going on around them while I am here in my peaceful surroundings?  My heart is drawn to the city and those kids.  What about the families of those lost in the tragic VT shooting yesterday?  Then I move outside the borders of our country.  What of those in Iraq, seeing their friends being injured and dieing around them?  I speak of both the Iraqis and the American soldiers.  Barron is heading back very soon and I am worried about him and the job he has to do.  There are the issues across Africa that plague entire communities on that continent.  The problem of child trafficking and slavery around the world, where children will wake up today to work tirelessly hoping they will receive just one meal. All these things make my problems seem so trivial and yet my problems and those of my friends are real.

I serve a God who is concerned for it all, and on nights like tonight that concept is so difficult to grasp.  How is it possible for God to have any pity toward me in my situation when there are so many more around this world suffering unjustly?  It’s something that my human mind will never comprehend, but I am grateful for His love and compassion.

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