Foreign Policy for Christians
Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
I had a dream last night that made me change the way I look at American foreign policy. It was a simple dream. Nothing real dramatic. There was just a man. A middle eastern man. I think he might have been from Palestine. He was wearing a red turbine looking thing. He was looking right at me. He seemed confused. I mean he seemed just a little perplexed.
I woke up as people often do right after a dream. His face still in my mind as sleep gave way to the morning. Then it dawned on me. He was wondering why and how I could be so concerned with the economic trouble we are having when his country is suffering in a much worse way.
I realized that he was right. I thought about it a moment. Then an idea came to me. I thought, “how about a foreign policy stimulus package?”. All we need to do is run down to Target and buy something and then ship it over there somewhere. If every single American bought one $10 item that would be something like 2 billion dollars.
Just imagine how much that would stimulate the economy! Not to mention the good will. Then I got to thinking about it some more and I realized it wouldn’t be good enough to just send an item. We should send along a message with love offering hope in a letter or a cd or dvd. Now that would be cool!
Just imagine how much that would do to improve things! I thought what if everyone caught on to this? What a wonderful world this would be?! If only. If only we could just be like Christians. I thought, if only we could be like Christians no one would even have to ask us. We would just already be doing something like that. If only.
Well I know it sounds like a silly idea but I think it could work. So how about this? Why don’t you send me an item along with your letter, cd or dvd and a little money so I can sent it over there? You can send it to Doug Hauptman Ministries, 20 Castlehill Court, Covington, GA 30016. Please send only new items. Left overs don’t count really if you want to really do good.
Thanks in advance for your courage and faith.
Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love and Blessings!
Reverend Doug Hauptman