SOS 7

One of my biggest fears is not being able to help everyone that comes in FRC or people that I encounter on a daily basis. There have been many times since I started Bonner this pressing topic has come up, and I have always been happy with not helping everyone. My new role at FRC the idea has come back in a different way. At the start of the week, a woman called and told me that she is going to be kicked out of her grandmother’s house in the coming weeks. She told me that she had children and was jobless, but I said that demands for our program are high and I could not help her at that time. The only thing I could do was to put her on our waiting list and referred her to other agencies in the county. Most people that I encounter at FRC are at their lowest moments in life. Some are there due to poor decision making and others are at their lowest moments because life just sucked the marrow from their bones. I have to tell myself that I can only do what I can do and I am fine with that. The lady that called at the start of the week will not be the last person that calls with a similar problem. This approach has led me to bigger questions and views: First, if we can’t help everyone who will be the next kind person to step up to help others? Second, if we can’t help the one with the greatest need; how does humankind expect to bring peace and justice to our communities?