Whose Discomfort?

Often, Do-Gooders with power will inadvertently do more damage than good. You can see this at work in the movie, "Beasts of the Southern Wild". There were certain groups that decided the main character and her family had to live differently. Their "solution" was to force them to live in a different place and in a different way.

I'm so glad that God is/was not a Do-Gooder. Instead of taking us out of our environment and "making" us live the way He thinks(?) we should, He came to us in our environments, "infecting" us with a desire to live differently, and then gave us time and space to figure it out in such a way that was authentic to us.

I wish more of us would follow His example. But living among "them" and "infecting" them is costly to us and takes longer and besides, it has always been more about our discomfort than theirs.