OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND

Some people have a real problem when it comes to dealing with tragedy, calamity, and trouble.  “If it doesn’t affect me directly I simply ignore it.”  “Others can deal with this, I just can’t.”  “Let those people deal with it the best they can.”  These are some of the things we say when trouble is greater than our capacity to comprehend, let alone deal with.

 

We have a tendency to remove ourselves from the situation until the situation overtakes us.  Friends, the Ebola situation has overtaken so many people.  Can we turn our backs on humanity?  Can we continue to ignore this tragedy?

 

As you look into the face of those suffering, please remember that we all belong to the same race, same family, HUMANITY!  We must not turn our backs and wait for someone else to do something.  Look deeply into the face of some of the suffering in Liberia, West Africa.

 

 

A woman throws a handful of soil towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take Mekie Nagbe, 28, for cremation on October 10, 2014, in Monrovia, Liberia. Nagbe, a market vendor, collapsed and died outside her home earlier in the morning while leaving to walk to a treatment center, according to her relatives. The burial of loved ones is important in Liberian culture, making the removal of infected bodies for cremation all the more traumatic for surviving family members. (John Moore/Getty Images)

 

 

 

Sophia Doe and her granddaughters Arthuneh Qunoh, 9, and Beauty Mandi, 9 months, weep as an Ebola burial team arrives to take away her daughter… for cremation on October 10, 2014, in Monrovia, Liberia. The children seen in the photo are daughters of the deceased. (John Moore/Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Varney Jonson, 46, grieves as an Ebola burial team takes away the body of his wife, Nama Fambule, for cremation on October 10, 2014, in Monrovia, Liberia. He and his family said that she had been sick for more than a year with an undiagnosed illness and protested her body being taken away as an Ebola victim. (John Moore/Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relatives of Hanfen John, who died due to the Ebola virus, mourn for him in Monrovia, Liberia, on 10 October, 2014. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relative of Hanfen John, who died due to the Ebola virus, mourns for him in Monrovia, Liberia, on 10 October, 2014. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)