Looking In Before Out

I agree with Leob's quote of caring for all children not just our own but this quote still invokes the idea that we are not all family. When I think of humanity I think of a collective species that has risen to power in this world because of our capabilities to collectively accomplish objectives. We need to start looking at everyone as members of our family, not outsiders that we chose to assist. I believe that our families are simply specific people that God has set as our primary responsibility. Any of one of us, if we were in a fire, would save our cousin, or nephew, but would probably save our siblings or parents first. It's not that we don't care about our cousins or love them any less but we have a natural instinct to assist our immdiate family because of our notion of this God given responsibility. This example shows how we do need to consider the world as our family and help them, but at the same time not foresake our own responsibilities. If everyone stepped up to the plate and helped their families as they should, very little community service would be needed in our world today. Since this is not a perfect world though, not a responsibilities are met, fathers abandon families, mothers neglect their children, and siblings fight rather than protect eachother. And so, we who have been blessed with families, who have lived up to their responsibilites, are called on to help those less fortunate. Yet at every moment we must be mindful to not neglect our own responsibilities. Just as the Bible asks, we must ask ourselves, how can we remove the splinter from our neighbor's eye with a log in our own?