lets be human and real makholwa

Brethren, I shall end my blogs on a more sober and practical tone as I close this subject of HIV/AIDS and the church. I will never forget the first person I met with AIDS: a young person desperately ill in a side-room. He was anxious, sweaty panting for breath, and gripped with fear. He was alone and about to die. From that moment on I found I was involved. Here was a human being made in God's image, in great need. How could I respond other than to care and help, laying aside any personal feelings I might have had about lifestyles, and the means by which he had become infected?
So often as abantwana bakaMlimu reacting to umkhuhlane we do nothing or find ourselves rushing to open our bibles, to declare to ourselves and to others that something is wrong. Yet in our sudden response we can loose sight of God's mercy, love and forgiveness - and the reality that many have been infected through the actions of others rather than through their own behaviour. It’s so possible to be technically correct in interpreting God's standards for human behaviour yet terribly wrong and un Christian in our own attitudes.