Caring for the marginalized, the lesser, the wronged in any circumstance comes innate to me. Some of this comes from my days in elementary school when I got picked on, some of it comes from the incessant repetition of losing soccer seasons. Sounds weak, but I know that identification with the oppressed is a unique theme in my life. I forget this theme sometimes because
1. I am a broken human being.
2. I am wealthy compared to the rest of the world
3. I go to school in a wealthy neighborhood with economically well-off students.
So I am naturally insulated from the poor. A bad thing if I dare call myself a "Christian."
The Irresistible Revolution has convicted, and then reinvigorated me to pursue the "least of these" in Denver, when I go to Israel, and then beyond until the end of my days. That is why for this month's quote, I choose a statement not written by Claiborne himself, but one that he referenced in his book.
"The true atheist is the one who denies God's image in the least of these."
-Dorothy Day
Forgets could be placed instead of denies. We must always remember the way Christ lived his life, if we are going to live in such a materialistic, sterilized culture. If we remember Jesus, we are bound to remember the poor.
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