COMPASSION REQUIRES ACTION:
DIVINE DUTY
by Sarah Sonne
Calgary Herald, November 1 2008

If you believe the Bible, you believe in a God who not only did not create or cause suffering, but a God that experiences suffering Himself. Jesus was a crisis teenage pregnancy, was born in a manger, grew up on the wrong side of town, knew hunger, pain, exhaustion and rejection, was ridiculed, tortured and put to death on a cross. There is a reality that even God suffers. And yet, He loves us so much that He is willing to do that. Understanding suffering and wanting it to end, He sends people like Dr. Chris Brooks to alleviate it. There is enough food, money and resources that no one should be suffering; the things happening around the world are proof of our own apathy, nothing more. We need more people like Brooks who recognize God's call and are moved to action.