Each day when I read the news and hear politicians talk, the more I worry and fear for the poor and the seniors in America.
Just last week I heard about cuts to the welfare system that gives food and a little money to the poor and insurance to them for medical treatment.
I read where a Republican who wants to run for President wants to cut Social Security and Medicare to our seniors. I am so afraid for America, the poor and our seniors. I only see more hunger, more homelessness and more illness because of lack of money for health care.
But yet I see nothing about cutting aid to other countries, just more sent. More money spent on wars and then movie stars step up and can send a nation $1 million.
What about our people and our homelessness? Our people are going to bed hungry, but I only see their programs cut and no one putting millions in that fund.
Homeless shelters in this county have been closed because of what else? Lack of funds. People who call themselves Christians take food to the food banks at their church. A man I talked to the other day said he got moldy bread and expired food. The people think they did their good deed or was it to make themselves look good?
If the savior we serve was one of those people would they give him that food?
At my church we have a clothing closet to help the needy. We can”t find enough people to even donate good clothing to give to those in need as they take the good clothes to consignment shops or have yard sales as it would be a shame not to get that dollar and help someone instead.
People we have to wake up and help out our own. Go out and look in the homeless camps around the city if you don”t believe it exists.
I had one man who came to a luncheon say I believe in God and the Christian faith but know people would snub me if I came to church like this. My heart broke. Fellow Christians don”t judge people by the way they dress, the color of their skin or the mistakes they might have made. It is written that Christ said the man without sin cast the first stone. None of us are better than our neighbors. Maybe more fortunate but surely not better.
We won”t be judged by our bank accounts or how we dress, but how we have lived and choices we made or didn”t make. Our country”s problems started when we kicked God out of our schools and government and we”re trying to take him out of our Pledge of Allegiance.
Is it really any wonder we are facing what we are in this country?
I pray we find a leader who wakes up and not only fears God but also thinks of our people first.
God bless.
Paul Hysell
Lakeport
