The Rev. Mark Seifried writes: One of the greatest lessons I learned over the last few years was that I cannot separate my life from others - spiritually or emotionally - because we are all connected in more ways that we imagine. If I can ignore your suffering, or worse laugh at your suffering, it's as good as doing it to myself. I've studied Jesus long enough to know that when he said, "Whatsoever you did for the least of my sisters or brothers, that you also did to me," (Matthew 25:40), he wasn't speaking in metaphor or referring to some mystical connection with God.
