The ever-helpful Father Orthoduck feels that he should add a couple of Scriptures and one saying to help round out the comic above. GRIN.
Saint James — Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
Our Lord Jesus — And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Our Lord Jesus — Then He will also say to those on the left hand, “Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.” Then they also will answer Him, saying, “Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?” Then He will answer them, saying, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.” And these will go away into everlasting punishment . . .
Our Lord Jesus — But woe to you who are rich,for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full, for you shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Acts of the Apostles — Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
Abba Theodore, surnamed Pherme, had three good books. He went to abba Macarius and said to him, “I have three good books, and I am helped by reading them; other monks also want to read them and they are helped by them. Tell me, what am I to do?” The old man said, “Reading books is good but possessing nothing is more than all.’ When he heard this, he went away and sold the books and gave the money to the poor.
In other words, suit up and show up–where people are hurting. Your purpose on this planet might simply be to smile at someone who has forgotten what a smile looks like. ALix