When we encounter stories of people in flight—crossing waters that catch fire, walking across borders in desperation, losing homes to wildfire, standing in lines for food that is no longer available—we are invited to consider what our response means. The gospel does not ask us to solve every crisis or to adjudicate the complex policy questions that surround migration, disaster, and poverty. It does ask us to notice the hungry, the stranger, the displaced, and to ask ourselves what it means to see them as Jesus described seeing them: as he himself, present in their need. The abundance of such stories in a single news cycle may feel overwhelming; perhaps that is not accidental, but rather an invitation to examine our own capacity for compassion, and to ask where, in our own sphere, we might offer shelter, sustenance, or witness to those who have lost both.