Mark and Alice Westlind are missionaries in Colombia. Here is an excerpt from their prayer letter:

"Driving through Christmas traffic, fighting the drizzling rain, I chanced on a 4-year-old little girl. She was wet and cold and shaking. Her clothes were ragged, her hair was matted, and her nose was running. She walked between the cars at the stoplight, washing headlights because she was too short to wash windshields. A few gave her coins, others honked at her to get away from their vehicles."

I admired the honesty of their next sentence because I have felt the same way. "As I drove away only some 50 cents poorer, I raged at God for the injustice in the world that allowed the situation. 'God, how could You just stand by, helpless?'" The missionary concluded, "Later that evening, God came to me softly with that still small voice and responded not in like kind to my rage, but with tenderness, 'I have done something. I created you.'"

Jesus came as light to our sin-darkened, cruel, unfair world. As we respond with compassion and goodness to suffering people, we proclaim His life-changing power. We can't solve all the world's problems, but we can bear witness to the Light and bring glory to the Father (Mt. 5:16).  — David C. Egner