Few of us can say that we have never been ashamed when it came to our attention that we failed to care for someone whom we should have cared for.

Whether our unawareness was innocent and inadvertent or the result of negligence-
– it’s painful to find out that we’ve failed to care.

So we’d do well to be more inquisitive when it comes to others’ need for our caring.

Caring is a privilege.
Caring for others would not be possible if we had not been endowed with some very special gifts.

While certain animals “care” for their young in one sense, the kind of caring that human beings are capable of requires a set of remarkable powers.

It’s a privilege to have been endowed with these powers, and if we ever catch ourselves complaining about having to use them, then we need to adjust our attitudes.

Duty is simply the other side of privilege.

Caring is a pleasure.
Out of all the happinesses, or perhaps we should say joys, that human beings can experience, none is more exquisite than that of caring.

And I don’t mean simply the sentiment of caring-
I mean the act of caring.

The words “It is more blessed to give than to receive” encapsulate-
– one of the most important truths that our minds can grasp.

It would behoove us to quit paying lip service to that maxim and start learning that life really does work that way.
Caring is a protection.
This is a story about four people:

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.

This little story applies so much to Christians today.

If not us, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?

Nobody is getting the work of God done because everybody thinks somebody is going to do it, when anybody could have done it, but nobody did.

Indifference, which is a failure to care, is a horrible sin.

I don’t believe George Bernard Shaw was overstating the case when he said: