I don't care

Been thinking tonight...I have a neighbor who drives me crazy. Around 7pm each night, he starts watching a movie, he doesn't stop watching movies till about noon the next day. Now normally this shouldn't annoy me, but he has all of his windows open and the volume is up so high that I feel like I'm sitting in his living room watching it with him. I've been annoyed for weeks by this because it's been preventing me from sleeping very well. But I've been thinking...I wonder why he watches movies. Maybe he's lonely, doesn't have anyone to talk to so he drowns out the silence with movies. Maybe he is hard of hearing. Maybe he is disabled, can't work, and watches movies all the time to fill the void. I don't know why he watches movies so loudly at night. But the important question I should answer is, why don't I care? Why do I get so caught up in my annoyance that I forget to care, forget to care that he's a human being, a human being possibly in need of hope? And for that matter, why don't I care more in general? Too many times I get too caught up in my annoyance with people. I get annoyed waiting in the grocery store line behind some lady with her 5 crazy kids swiping her Oregon Trail card. I get annoyed waiting for someone, clearly under the influence, to finally cross the street. I get annoyed when I see, yet another homeless person asking for money at Walmart. But unlike me God doesn't roll His eyes as any of these situations. He sees right past the exterior and sees what's really going inside. Hurt. Rejection. Pain. God sees and knows the pain in each circumstance. He knows people's past and why their present is the way it is now. His heart is not annoyance, His heart is unconditional love. He's also in the business of changing us, so it's no coincidence that change is a natural response to God's unconditional love pouring into our lives. Our addictions don't daunt Him, our methods of repression does not thwart Him, and our resolve to push Him away doesn't hinder Him. God's love is strong. What people really need to know is that God cares. And how will people ever know that God cares if I don't care?