My name is Cisco Rojas. This is my second year attending the Agape program at Sacred Heart in Bellingham. Today we participating in some activities that made us think about the social circle and who's privilege and who's not. We also went to play with the kids of the migrant parents at Sunrise camp and watching the kids smile and having was great. Afterwards we split into groups and stood in front of groceries stores and asked for food donations for a food drive that will be taking place on Wednesday. We had a wonderful teacher talked to us about the true meaning to Agape and dove deeper into his lesson. Coming back from Ascend and learning about recognizing peoples Gifts and their differences, help vouched for this gentleman lesson he has taught us. Seeing people for who they are and putting yourself in their shoes would make the term Agape - which means unconditional love - true and strong. There is always a light in the darkest cave. Look outside the box and you will find love. That is what I've learned today.
When out and about you tend to think about what will benefit you yet the second you start getting missed treated you get upset wanting the other person to apologize for their actions, but think about the people who are always miss treated and don't get what they want nor need. People have been missed treated their whole life just because the way they look. I learned this today by when a group of us at agape where treated different by the leaders because of a wrist band. This wrist band had restricted us from being able to do the same things as the kids without the wrist bands. An example of this was when the kids with wrist bands had to go inside and make a delicious food but the kids with wrist band were forced to eat rice and beans and we were limited on portions. This one thing had shown me the people get missed treated all the time no matter what they act or look like, being treated differently for stereotypes brought to different parts of the world by different opinions.
~Allie Pearson
No comments:
Post a Comment