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Something very important and very serious has happened to the human race, and it
appears to have happened without many people caring much about it. If we really cared
about it, I can't imagine that it could have happened. At least, not on so widespread a
scale. And this not caring about what has happened is an extension of what has happened
itself.
What has happened is that people have stopped caring about what is happening.
Are you following this? I hope so, because, as I've said, this is very important and very
serious. Everywhere I look in our world I see a very scary, very frightening development.
I am seeing people losing their compassion, losing their empathy, losing their ability to
even use common sense when thinking about the needs of others.
I want to give you just one example, if you think I've gone off the deep end here and am
wildly exaggerating.
On May 16th Christopher Sercye died in Chicago, Illinois. Christopher was 15 years old.
He died after being caught in a gang crossfire. He wasn't in a gang, mind you. He was
simply caught in a crossfire.
Now bad, and sad, as that is, that is not where this story ends. Christopher was with friends
when he got hit by this stray gunfire, and they managed to get him to the Ravenswood
Hospital Medical Center. Well, almost. They got him as far as the door to the building, but
they couldn't get him inside, because he'd collapsed.
The kids ran in to get help. Nobody offered any. It's not that everyone was too busy, or
that no one heard the request. The staff simply refused. Workers at the hospital let
Christopher die on the pavement, inches from the emergency room entrance. Why?
The hospital has a policy prohibiting staff members from leaving the building to treat
patients outside.
Did you get that? I'm not making this up. Now it is true that after Christopher died the
hospital changed its policy. John E. Blair, hospital president and chief executive, allowed
as to how "what happened to Christopher Sercye was tragic in every way." But the real
question is, how could it have happened at all?
No one who understood "Conversations With God's" message that WE ARE ALL ONE could possibly have
reacted the way those doctors and nurses did. It is up to you and me to bring caring back
to the human heart. Will you work with me on this? My dear friends, it's now or never
time.
