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2011 November 17
Do the Right Thing
Kinshasa is a prime example of social injustices gone mad. It not only frustrating but
tiring...how do we respond to these wrongs as followers of Christ? The result has been corrupt systems, abusive governments, severe poverty and dilapidated cars that crowd the city streets. When I lived there, I too often found myself on the side of the road a little glum standing in the exhaust and dust of the passing cars wondering how I was going to get into town. You see, we didn't have a vehicle and getting a taxi during traffic hour was out of the question. There was no bus system. So the odd time a car actually stopped to pick me up, I gladly paid for the ride. This was, after all, expected practice. One time, however, 
as I was pulling out my money to pay for a ride in a car that lookedparticularly forbidding, the driver said, "Don't worry about it..." I responded immediately, "No, no...you take it! You need it!" He emphatically stated, "I don't need your money....what I need is, to do is the right thing." When I grow wearisome of how I should respond to the injustices I see around me, the face of the driver appears in my head, smiling back at me. saying, "...do the right thing". I realize it does not need to be that complicated.
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