Day Nineteen // March 18 // Indifference “Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.” – Henry Ward Beecher –
One of Jesus’ most troubling parables is found in Luke 16. In the parable, entitled “The Rich Man and Lazarus,” we read of a certain rich man who had ignored the beggar, Lazarus, at his gate. While living in unquestioning luxury, he had missed the needs right in front of him; and, at the end of his life, the rich man finds himself in hell. The story is troubling because the rich man was not mean or intentionally cruel; we could justify in our minds his eternal outcome if he were. But, in fact, he never mistreated Lazarus. He never kicked him. He never chased him away. He never lectured him about getting up and getting a job. Still, his unacted-
