this past week while treating a Syrian Refugee family in my dental practice, I re learned the value of community.  Essentially there is little to no money to properly meet their dental needs which are immediate, acute and chronic.  I was attempting to treat all their needs myself, but I found myself in over my head.  I called an oral surgeon, and an endodontist (root canal specialist) and they agreed to see them and treat them for free, because I was.  I since learned that 2 other dentists in my community are treating other Syrian refugee families for nothing because I was and because as I see it, it is simply the right thing to do!

 

Darkness is the absence of light

Evil is the absence of good

There are times

When the Light

Is clouded by

Stresses of our own making

Clouded thoughts

Obscure the Light

stumbling

Trying to create an artificial light

That mimics

But it neither illumines

Nor guides

But slides into

Independent

Self-aggrandizement

I need no one

…. Easier, faster, I’ll just do it myself

Alluring truth

often

Self martyrdom

Perhaps is the

Fear of truly being known

Fear of disappointment

Fear of facing the darkness that lies within

In Christ

Is community

Self is laid down

Weaknesses held by each other

Vulnerable

Interdependent

Needing each other

In Christ

With God

The Spirit unites

There we can be bound together

And The Light

Illumines our path