Friday, September 09, 2005

least deserving.....

ok, so i sat through a prolonged committee meeting this morning.....and went away saddened by what was said and done/notdone......those gathered together were local agencies interested in taking up God's pantry on its offer to include this county in a mobile food pantry delivery service......they are offering to provide 100 boxes of food to 100 families once a month......and the collective we have to figure out logistics....such as who the 100 families will be......and the bulk of the comments made were under the narrow heading of who deserves help versus who does not.......most of those present were fixated on just how the collective we would filter out those who are the least deserving.......and the desciption f who fit that profile was quite subjective......like unmarried couples living together versus married couples.......and folks getting food stamps versus not....and those who have jobs and those do not.....and it just went on and on.....andfor all of the christian intentions of those present.....a major point was missed........none of us deserves grace....and therefore we have no business making distinctions on deserve versus undeserving........god's pantry has financial guidelines.....and aside from those.....i say that whoever can qualify should get something...maybe not every month.....but as often as there name can pop up on a list of 100 families.......sorry for ranting about something so esoteric........

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