Tonight on the news there was a story regarding high school football and the dangers...now I'm not a fear monger because I realize danger is all around us...but what caught my attention was the follow-up story about a man who is my age who was injured while playing football. The injury was very traumatic...causing him to be paralyzed from the neck down. At the time the family was without insurance but the school system had a policy that covered accidents like this but now the system has lost the coverage, leaving this man w/ little to no coverage.
The results of this were his mother having to make tough decisions...pay for medication that allowed his 1 functioning lung to continue functioning or pay for their home...she chose the life of her son. Eventually she found a foreclosure notice from the bank on her home...the first thought that went through my mind was 'What is wrong w/ the world in which we live?' It is called business w/o compassion...we have forgotten people.
Luckily for this family there is an organization stepping up to help them...my further thoughts were there are people out there who have found themselves in the same spot...there are families cramming into small hotel rooms because they have no where else to go...then there are those who can't even pay for a room and have found themselves in the street...what have we done...turned a blind eye...we have forgotten people...we have become a church universal w/o compassion...I hope this is not coming across as yelling because I'm really yelling at myself...over the last few months I've been thinking about what can we do in our community...Greater Rockingham County has been decimated by industry going overseas w/ very little replacement...the unemployment rate has remained high...what is the bright spot...God has given us a mission and I'm making a 'world-wide-web' commitment I'm no longer sitting on the sidelines...somehow someway I'm getting my feet wet and I am willing to take anyone w/ me...how can we be Christian's w/ compassion and show it? No idea is 'crazy' and I am even willing to go out w/o a plan except God's plan. Let's turn the world upside down.
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