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One of the most insidious attitudes I recognised in me in retrospect was the separation of people into 'Us and Them': anyone unlike me is at best avoided, and at worst seen as inferior. It's this attitude that distinguishes between those who work for the poor and those who work with the poor. It's what helps us to demonise and dehumanise others.
For lots of different reasons, I always felt it easy to relate to those on the 'outside'. It helped that I came to realise some of my own inner poverty. But what first really exorcised this attitude was experiencing poverty in a developing country for the first time. Some friends and I were hosted and given a week's worth of food by a man whose family were many hours away, and who were reduced to one meal a day - something I only learned afterwards.
A personal connection was made. If my own family or a neighbour suffered as he did, of course I would help. Since my lifestyle and the history of my nation were complicit in his oppression, why should I not care about his future? And the generosity and depth of faith he and others demonstrated in the face of desperate circumstances humbled me, taught me and broke me.
Caring about 'Justice' is important, but crucially it's about People; wherever they happen to have been born, or however different their outlook is to me. This song takes the gospel principle of a reconfigured family seriously.
lyrics
Almighty God, revealed as Father;
Daddy to me and to us all;
Help me remember my brothers and sisters,
All that call you Father and LORD.
Remember the poor, my brothers and sisters,
Working to eat and struggling to live.
Help me learn from the lives of your favourites;
What I do for them I do for you.
Remember the rich, my brothers and sisters,
Trapped in lives of idolatry,
Dying inside whilst faith is in Mammon;
LORD have mercy, on them and on me.
Remember the drunk, the drugged and the homeless,
Both rich and poor who lose their dignity.
The last, the lost, the least and the losers;
Like brother Jesus, my family.
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