Just what does a girl have to do to get some quiet time!?
I work for a charitable organization, I really like my job. I really do. I'm at an age where doing something that actually means something, rather than doing menial tasks for no appreciation, at a low pay rate so someone else can get rich just does not cut it for me any longer. Jobs should mean something. They really should. I help people with food, clothing, rent and utilities. More than 50% of the people who come to us lie to us about something on their applications. I have a problem with that. It bothers me, I wish it didn't, but I don't like being lied to. I know that there are people out there who play the system, but this is a church. Why are they lying to a church, then saying, "God bless you.", when they leave? That makes absolutely no sense to me. Have we become so morally bankrupt that this is the norm if you are poor? And this is not one group of people, it is all groups. People who had money but have lost jobs, people who are on disability, people who have moved here, college students, people on welfare, women who don't have the sense to get on the pill instead of having 5 or more children before they're 30, men too lazy to get out and get a job to support their children or themselves, or too stupid to take a job, ANY job so long as they are making money.
Then there are the people who are really trying to make it. You can see it in their eyes, they've done their best, but they've hit a spot, and exhausted all of their options, so they come to us. I really feel for them, cause I know what it's like to have to go begging. It's humiliating. To realize you can't do it alone. That for this moment in time you cannot make ends meet. And you need someone else to help you with the burden. I try to be kind to everyone who comes in here. But the ones that you can see are just crushed by the helplessness, those are the ones that touch my heart. Now, we are all deserving of kindness, we are all deserving of love. I try not to be discriminating, but when you know you're being used, that's a tough pill to swallow.
I know that these many are part of creation, they are capable of greatness, they are capable of being wonderful people, but for some reason, they chose not to be. Why?
When did it become unusual to want to help people, simply for the pleasure of knowing you did the right thing? When did we become such a self-centered, self-absorbed world that we have no time to reach out? When did money, fame, monetary success become the thing to strive for? I've seen the saying, "You can never be too rich, or too thin." Is that what the world is about now?
It makes me sad.
Later
Then there are the people who are really trying to make it. You can see it in their eyes, they've done their best, but they've hit a spot, and exhausted all of their options, so they come to us. I really feel for them, cause I know what it's like to have to go begging. It's humiliating. To realize you can't do it alone. That for this moment in time you cannot make ends meet. And you need someone else to help you with the burden. I try to be kind to everyone who comes in here. But the ones that you can see are just crushed by the helplessness, those are the ones that touch my heart. Now, we are all deserving of kindness, we are all deserving of love. I try not to be discriminating, but when you know you're being used, that's a tough pill to swallow.
I know that these many are part of creation, they are capable of greatness, they are capable of being wonderful people, but for some reason, they chose not to be. Why?
When did it become unusual to want to help people, simply for the pleasure of knowing you did the right thing? When did we become such a self-centered, self-absorbed world that we have no time to reach out? When did money, fame, monetary success become the thing to strive for? I've seen the saying, "You can never be too rich, or too thin." Is that what the world is about now?
It makes me sad.
Later