Crossing Lines
by Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness

When we witness, first hand, serious abuses of fellow human beings, and when we have a chance to raise our voices and perhaps alleviate their afflictions, how can we keep quiet? In our world, many of us who live in the US are perched, quite by accident, amidst inordinately luxurious surroundings, relative to the rest of the world. We're the luckiest. We're the most blest. And we have the greatest responsibility to build a better world.

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