smoke alarms

Hi there.
How's everything going?
I hope that you're having a nice day, whatever you've been up to.
Last night, I couldn't sleep, not only have I got cooking trial at the latest hotel today.
The jolly smoke alarm went off, not the beep that happens when you burn your toast.
But that cold weather, beep, flat battery beep, the beep that you don't know what one it is beep because you have 8 upstairs, and it could be one of them.
It got me thinking about something.
And that is ignoring the person, or thing.
You see if we just ignore the beep, and try to go back to bed the next beep would go off, and we simply can't ignore the smoke alarm.
If someone asks for help, we have to help them out.
And like wise if we need help someone will come.
We have forgotten this in life, we're simply to busy, juggling all different things, and all matter of things, we try not to get to involved because it might be emotionally draining.
We are on this earth so that we can be light, not the light of the party, but the light and help, that person needs.
We have a crisis in Dunedin, and that is, that to many at risk people, can't afford a place to sleep, so they sell themselves to prostitution.
That is sad, first of all they are at risk, anyone, can be at risk, but we have such a bed shortage that these people feel forced to sell themselves.
What's happened to the safe houses we used to have for these people?
After all there, used to be a lot, and it's happening more and more, that people can't live in the places they used to life.
We go to church, we sing to God, we do all these things, and we wear the Christian badge, but we have a much needed more need in our city, for people crying out for a place to sleep, and if they are wanting a place to sleep what else is there lying under the surface?
If we just put as side our own wants and needs, and to ask God to open our lives, to ask what has society done, to these people.
It's time to stop ignoring the smoke alarms and do something about the beep.
It might just be working with the council so that we can get these people off the streets, working with the government, so that prostitution will stop.
And for one be the light of the world, in this incredibly dark place.
Chloe