Heaping coals and food .... Prov.25:21

'If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head and the Lord will reward you.' I love a story that I found on the internet about how a company of Marines helped an Afghan father gets his burned boy to a hospital run by Americans. It reminded me of the quoted passage of scripture above. I wonder why incidents like this aren't more publicized; last night as I listened to the President's message on why we were continuing to be in Afghanistan how thrilling it would have been to have mentioned the humanitarian reasons, better schools, equal opportunities, medical clinics and hospitals, infra-structure creativity, etc... perhaps the billions of dollars that are being spent there might produce more positive progress if they were spent improving the local citizenry and just by chance the President might get more support if the human face of the struggle were shown? I don't know, but I am thankful for soldiers who are still sensitive to the human condition and how they might address it...
www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/7989.html .... if you find the site has expired you may just want to go to http://www.macclatchydc.com/ .... this is the homepage.
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