CHARITY: Repairing the breach [Isaiah 58:12] -- or closing the rapidly widening gap between rich and poor -- and Turning the hearts [Malachi 4:6] and our priorities from the world to our families are the two greatest causes and challenges of our time, and the two tasks most relevant (and most prerequisite) to the Lord's second coming. ... One powerful way of working at both scriptural admonitions at the same time is to bring the very rich together with the very poor. Doing so solves the problems of both. The rich overcome self-centeredness and hedonism by helping, thus turning their children from spoiled brats to serving and world-aware stewards. And the poor begin to receive the help they need on a personal level. Each time it happens, the breach is repaired (even if just a little) and the hearts are turned. -- Richard Eyre, meridianmagazine.com, 6/23/06