People say a picture speaks a thousand words.
In fact, a picture can burn an image into a human mind that never can be erased.
One such picture in my mind flashed for a few seconds on our TV screens a few weeks ago. Many of you saw the same picture of a Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish shore.
Thousands have died crossing the sea from Syria to a new life. Leaders in Europe argue about the box to put these people into. Are they refugees or are they economic migrants?
Other put them in a religious box, Muslims. Before someone is a refugee or an economic migrant or even a Muslim, they are human beings. People, just like us, who are scared and just want hope. If any country in the world should be sympathetic to these people, it should be South Africa.
Many of us are direct descendants of migrants. Today we have millions of refugees in our own country.
Psalm 139:13, “You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
Ps. Can you still see the little boy’s body on that beach? God can. Compassion makes us human.
