My Brother's Keeper

I had a dream I was in a restaurant with a mother that came in with three children, I was with a woman and there was a young waitress. The mother with her three children walked by and I noticed the children were wearing shorts with tank tops or mid-drift shirts. What caught my attention with this family was the bruising, cuts, and burns on these children's back, elbows, and in front and behind their knees.

As the family was preparing to walk out of the restaurant, I noticed the faces of these children. Each child had a very sad and sullen look about them. 

I called the waitress over to ask her if she said anything to the mother or called for help. The young waitress got an attitude with me, asking what business was it of hers or mine, for that matter, what was happening in that family's home.  The waitress then, turned to my guest and asked what was I doing with 'her kind' in a public place. I told the young waitress, I was trying to help her as I wanted to help the family that just left. Once more, the waitress gave the impression that she wasn't going to consider the family or what she saw for one more second. 

As I woke up from this dream, my heart was heavy with sadness. The scripture that came to me over and over in my mind and it was from Genesis chapter four.  Cain had just killed his brother Abel and the Lord was having a conversation with Cain about it.  The Lord said to Cain, 'where is Abel your brother?' he said, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?" 

The answer is yes; otherwise God may not have asked Cain this question. We are responsible to do the right thing and to love on each other.  The problem is that no one wants to get their hands messy because life is messy.  Most people don't want to even face their problems because life is messy. 

~Be encouraged, if no one did anything, then someone would do nothing, but then everyone should help someone in order to make life better; shouldn't we?