Neat and Tidy in 2019

Post date: Jan 10, 2019 9:45:51 PM

Neat and Tidy

We live in a society and a culture that is neat and tidy. This analysis begins with treatment. Treatment of our elderly and disabled persons.

What does that mean? Being a Hispanic person, it was the Sin against God. The sin to even consider placing a loved one in a nursing home. We just dealt with the loved ones.

That remains of one of those old time gunslinger shows. At times, you would see that special room in the house. The room where that one person was housed. It was shown on prime-time TV in black and white. That was the way you dealt with it.

Now, brothers and sister, siblings, children; they leave their loved ones in a nursing home. Case in point: my father was taking care of his father in his home. He never thought or ventured to place him in a nursing home. That was sin. That was against God. Now, he, my father, was placed in a nursing home. The new generation thought nothing of it. While, some basis is the fact that “he was not present for a lot of the lifestyle and realities of his children”; but seemingly, in the life of his youngest brother.

So, come January, 2018, I visited him in the nursing home, after months of pleading with family to help bring him home to me, my dad was found to be emaciated. He was sick. He was at the point of death.

In August 2018, he died, in part, as the medical record read, of starvation. The pleas with family for assistance continued until the final weeks.

Neat and tidy transcends the church. The Southern Baptist Association, shows everyone has his place and boundary. And, God must fit himself into those standards. What that means is, God cannot use anyone other than in the capacity the theology and bylaws and constitutions of the Southern Baptist permits.

So, a Handicapped person can not deliver a warning from God. An elderly person cannot make it to church, will not be extended help to make it to church, if they lose the ability to walk or care for themselves. The secular adopted into the mainstream.

What does that mean in the US? The disabled still are unemployed at a rate of 2/3. This is an enlightened society. Then, even more problematic, is the groves of people now whom want to be labeled disabled not to work. The end result of a societal policy, defacto, is a laziness made in North Americans. Why work when we can be declared disabled? And, if you are disabled, you are not welcome to work. A cycle without end. That cycle is found in the church that adopted the same policy. If you are disabled, we will not help you find work, and we will not employ you, because, you are “defiled” and need not be in the church anyway. A cycle herein too exists.

I say this because I just had to relevant Conversations in the past month. One was about Cary Aliance, one about Christ Community, and one about Colonial Baptist. The gist of these conversations were the fact there are “loving” churches that Welcome you and make you feel loved. And, there are churches that allow you to be part of the masses without being included in the masses. Meaning, you are there participating but no one knows or really cares that you are there.

You had your Mary Lou White, your Alex and Stephanie's, your Rick and Susan, and your once upon a time Aaron Wallace. You had Olavarria family members that once cared.

Can a disabled person, in 2019, find a place in the church or in society? A neat and tidy church that does not allow the disabled to participate. A neat and tidy society that sends the disabled to be warehoused in a nursing facility. Is this 2019?