Indirect agency in loving your neighbor...

I think the problem that I have with committing my life to a “ministry” of sorts like working on a brand / label like "Fair Trade" is the level of indirect agency associated with it. I think that we are to be more directly involved with the objects of our love. I could be incorrect about this since the Samaritan himself eventually leaves the robbed and beaten neighbor in the hands of the inn keeper, funding his care and continuing about his business. I just think perhaps there should not be an organization between us and our neighbor; that something like exploiting a brand or marketing or even a global financial system puts too much indirection between us and our neighbor, or is too similar to a passive charity model. Then again, people cure diseases and invent teaching methods and pass laws that set people free in very real ways.

How long am I going to let philosophical distinctions stop me from loving my neighbor at all?

I thought I had figured out what the soul was...

...but then I fell asleep. The thing I thought the soul was went away until I dreamed, or until I woke up. If you have a soul, do you know it?