I once saw a homeless man give a business man $2 to pay for his parking meter, and I sat in the irony of that moment thinking about how caring for one another, as humans, flows two ways.
We all have something the other lacks, and watching moments of care like unfold seems rare, like seeing a moose in the wild. The moments must be captured, remembered and reflected upon.
I think these moments happen more often than not in-person. They happen in circumstances where we can see one another’s faces and engage with the entire human experience. Our emotions, our bodies, our minds and our spirits, all interacting with one another at the same time. So much more than can be experienced through a device in our hand where we can hide our faces. For when we hide our faces and others’ faces are hidden from us, we cannot see or show our emotions, our bodies our minds or our spirits. We can only write them down, type them out and send them off to the virtual world where we don’t have to look someone in the eye when they get hurt, wounded or upset by words written.
We were made flesh and made to be caregivers. This is where I believe we can truly be who we were created to be.
-Cliff
Cliff’s Note: The human experience is more than what we see on the devices in our hands.