Global Solidarity

Throughout this course, and throughout my life right now it seems, Solidarity is a HUGE reoccurring theme. Of course it is our responsibility to care for women who are abused or take advantage of. They are our sisters, they are our family, of course it is our responsibility to protect them. Especially if we see it everyday and continue to do nothing. Protect the dear neighbor. Isn't that part of the mounts mission statement? On a global level, people tend to help more when it is a signification event that effects millions of people at one time. Examples of such events are hurricanes  wars, tsunamis  It is easier to rally around to help one event at one time, especially if it effects our area, example hurricane Katrina. The shock and urgency of such events attract attention and publicity, leading people to be more inclined to help. When really things happen everyday that need to same amount of attention and urgency, but don't get it.

Resolutions

I think the year of faith is a great idea. Personally I'll take that year day by day, but it’s such a great thought that you can look at your life for year and make changes day by day moment by moment. If you make the suggested resolutions and commit to living them every day, they will not only change your life but the lives around you. When I read this and heard about this time of renewal I got excited, because it takes all our old teachings and puts emphasis on the traditions we have known since childhood.

Five resolutions I would make is:

1. Read the Bible everyday- okay. Maybe not every day but really try to read it and understand it. Take in the words interpret them for what they mean to me, not what someone told me the words meant. Really let the words change me.
2. Learn about the lives of saints- I believe studying the lives of faith filled people, will help me live my life in a fulfilling way. Kind of like WWJD, but using the actions of saints to guide my thinking in some situations.
3. Help those in need- Just stop thinking about myself. I think of this in two ways. One, care for the homeless and poor, and just the strangers who need my help. Two, The people I love who need my help. My family and my friends need me, and sometimes I get so wrapped up in what I’m doing I forget about the people need me to be there for them.
4. Incorporate Beatitudes in everyday life- This is the part of the year I think I will take with me the rest of my life, not that the rest won’t change me forever, I just think this one will change me the most. If I really live the way the beatitudes teach, my life will never be the same, because I know I’m not living by the beatitudes right now.
5. Last, I just want to make a revolution to talk to God at least once a day and not just begging him to help me on my AP Calc test. I want to talk to him like a friend and pray. Pray all throughout my day. I want God to become my friend over the next year.