May we truly see

The technological advancement in the world had made many things visible to us. Taking our eyesight beyond our immediate surrounding. Communication had become possible, even instantaneously, although geographically we may be in different time zones. So many things had been accessible to us. We even consider ourselves in a global community. In spite of this, we seem closed-in in a self-centered reality and remain oblivious or desensitize to a wider reality.

We can see pictures of aborted babies. We can see beheaded children and the genocide in Iraq and other lands. We can see and know what is happening in our world. Yet, there is hardly any moral indignation. Is it our tolerance for evil? Is it our incapacity to make any judgment? Is it just live and let others live the way they want? Is it erasing the negative and just focusing on the positive?

I still believe there is much goodness and beauty in this world but evil and its ugliness continue to assert itself aggressively. We can all be misled into resorting to abortion or joining evil cults. We do not want it for the people we love or even for those we do not know... because it is wrong and harmful to one's self and the world.

The late Jaime Cardinal Sin during the Martial Law regime reminds people to never get used to the stench of the garbage or else we will not mind living in it. We have been living in so much garbage in our world. We may not have the power to clean it all but if we remain alert, sensitive, indignant, and watchful, we can make a difference. We can keep the garbage from piling up. We can choose not to add our garbage by cleaning up what we can. We can not resign ourselves to the evil that seduces us. With God's light our senses can truly see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what is Truth or lie, love or use, beauty or ugliness. We surely need God to make it through.

Payatas garbage dump from Wiki Commons