Priorities

I opened a new container of yogurt for my breakfast this morning. I read the foil liner that covered the top. It said, “Cows are people, too”. I just couldn’t believe it actually had that statement in print. It was organic yogurt, and maybe that says something. I don’t want to rip on that- but I find something strange here. An effort is being made to bridge cows to people. And I am supposed to feel some emotion about how cows are given all kinds of hormones or kept in barns and not allowed to frolic in the sun?

Meanwhile, I go from church to church to tell people about the KaRen people. How they are victims of genocide at the hand of their own government. Men, women and children killed for their ethnicity and their Christianity. Many people seem unmoved in their response. Maybe it just seems too unreal or too far away to be effective in making some sort of change in the situation.

We are never too far away to pray. In the book of Jonah it speaks of how God is everywhere. There is no place we can go that would distance from Him. I really believe and trust God for a change for the KaRen people in Burma and on the border. I know that God is more than able to answer my prayers for protection and provision for the refugees. And I know that people have more value than cows. So lets join together and pray for the KaRen people. And treat cows humanely. But cows are not people, too.