Sunday, January 18, 2015

What does He want me to do??

There are many times in my life when I am faced with a struggle..
Like today..
I normally don't go to Sunday school, quite often it is like gossip hour or politics, nothing I am interested in, but my husband goes. Don't get me wrong, the lessons the leaders are trying to get through are good, I loved the video and its message today... but conversation usually misses the message.
SO... conversation started as the local food pantry is in need of some leadership, it seems to be "come get your food and go" kind of atmosphere with no teaching or leaning on Christ and they would like to use it as a way to reach out to people... OK good thought.
Then the subject turned to are the people using the food bank and public assistance truly living in poverty or just "using" the system because the system is flawed and people just want to live off the system and have no desire to fend for themselves.... Both realistic points.
 Then the conversation goes on to talk about people abusing the system and how people make more living off the system than they would working.... and this is where it gets, in my opinion ridiculous.

First comment was, its a generational thing, they are lazy but that wasn't the kicker, the next comment was , aid was made to control certain people.....

I was so taken back by these comments, I just sat, in shock for the rest of the time....

First of all, there are abusers of EVERY program on the planet... government assistance, taxes, laws, rules... you name it someone has figured out how to cheat or abuse it.

I think people in general just want to take care of their own and give them a better life.
I think sometimes parents who had nothing as a child go to great lengths to give their children everything and sometimes make huge financial mistakes in the process...
I think the generation before mine is at fault for this one... kids learn by example.. if mom was on welfare and told her daughters ( I myself have heard this conversation among daughter and mother)
" The more babies you have the more money they give you, you cant work if you have to care for those kids" ----- young, uneducated girls start having babies and get all into a serious commitment of children before they are grown themselves.... and now... those kids who are my age, are doing everything they can to keep those kids in school, out of trouble and get them on the road they were never shown.

To me, it seemed like the focus was to preach to the poor and bring them to God... which is a good concept, but who exactly ever thought the poor didn't already believe?
Just because they are in a hard time and needing food, does not mean they do not believe in God. Some of the most faithful people I know do not have an extra penny to their name....

So I guess my new goal is to find more productive, unoffensive ways to lead people back to church, or to church for the first time and to invite people back who left.


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