SUNDAY MORNING SERMON-THE CALLING

WE NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THE ONES WHO
  LACK VOICE OR WHOSE VOICE WE DO NOT
 OFTEN HEAR. WE THINK THEM UNLIKE US,
BUT THEY ARE OUR NEIGHBORS---THE WIDOWS,
   THE ORPHANS, THE IMMIGRANTS, THE POOR,
      THE LABORERS, THE PRISONERS, THE SLAVES,
   THE ADDICTS. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO DWELL
IN PLACES SHORT OF MERCY, ABSENT OF JUSTICE,
       DEFAULTED ON THE GIFTS OF LIFE. THEY
  ARE NOTICED ACUTELY BY GOD. ARE THEY
       NOTICED BY US?