The Beast AND the Burden

Have you ever walked into Walmart and stopped just to see all the people moving around you......have you ever considered how many of those people have ever put a needle in their arm, picked up a bottle before 12 in the afternoon...or  tried to feel some sort of pain other than the pain they feel every day. How many addicts do we see every day without even knowing that that person feels the need to be so incredibly numb just to get through the day? Have you ever looked into the eyes of a hurting soul and been able to see all the pain they bear, all the chemicals running through their blood. Can you see the darkness that has taken over them? The fear that runs their lives.....every second of every day. Why can't we see it? Why don't we do something? Those people are also "the least of these", are they not? Why do we turn our backs against our own.....