The Downtrodden and Forgotten - We cannot leave them to Suffer

    Lately I was thinking of whole peoples, societies, that are suffering and going through incredibly hard times in 2026. South Sudan. Gaza Strip. Southern Lebanon. Who else? Perhaps some other African nations have particular suffering, like in the Congo. I think there has been more misery there in the last 30 years than any place on earth. Ukraine and so many others there have gone through awful misery and woe, more than Europe has seen in decades.

    I think of global hot spots or places of war and disease; we often forget of what is happening in our own back yard.

    This afternoon we drove through a large part of Baltimore, on a clear and sunny Sunday afternoon. I noticed some people hanging out in a plaza square. I commented, have jokingly, that they were homeless. No, they were just hanging out, right? I thought. But another observed that they were people without homes, or unhoused folks, as some refer to them as some refer to them trying not to offend.

    Can we forget them?

    No, we should not.

    What would Jesus do?

    What would Mohammed say?

    How would a great rabbi react?

    What would the Buddha wish or proclaim?

    How should we deal with the downtrodden and forgotten?

    Only let them remain so?