Emails, death and dumb

Emails, death and dumb
by Chaplain Kathie
Wounded Times Blog
September 5, 2012

This morning I received yet another email from someone so focused on hating Democrats and the President, that I asked to be removed from his email list. I'm fed up with people I used to respect sending out lies filled with nonsense especially when they are in a position of being respected. This person is a Chaplain! Does he automatically assume everyone he knows agrees with the hatred he is supporting? Does he have a clue anymore what a Chaplain is supposed to be? I was part of his group a very long time ago and now I am more convinced than ever leaving it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Not that my own hands are clean because I used to be political as well. I didn't send out emails but I posted them on my old blog. I fell into the same trap I always complain about. I thought it was my duty to share the truth without ever once considering that some people would be hurt by what I posted. That stopped when a Marine sent me an email and asked me to stop doing it. I fired back a testy response defending my right to say what I wanted. Yep, got on that high horse and went as fast as I could. He replied with a very simple question. "Are you doing this for us or yourself?" After I stopped crying I realized he opened my eyes to how wrong I was.

I made him a promise that I would start this blog and only do political posts when it was about what politicians were doing for them or to them.

For the last 5 years, I kept that promise all while being constantly repulsed by emails flying in from both sides.

I read emails from military families and veterans all the time because their lives are falling apart and they are not getting the help they need. Then I read news reports from all over the country that make me so sad it is hard to type.

I posted this first thing. Fort Worth Mom let her toddler die because she was depressed about her husband's deployment. She tried to commit suicide and asked for help but didn't get it. Her other two children were also neglected. Then I read this.

Florida woman arrested for leaving infant son in dumpster: police
Alexandria Sladon-Marler was a troubled young woman with a history of frequent run-in with the law.
BY CHRISTINE ROBERTS
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

A Florida mother sits behind bars accused of infanticide after she was arrested and jailed Monday.

Alexandria Sladon-Marler was a familiar figure to many in the small Lake Ridge neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, population 3,000. Some days she could be seen sitting on curb and just hanging out.

"She used to like to knock on windows," Mary Rhodes, former head of the neighborhood's Community for a Better Lake Ridge, told the Daily News. "She'd hang out at local Wendy's…knock on men's car windows and ask for sex."

Sladon-Marler was struggling with a troubled life. Those who knew her suggest that mental illness — not just bad behavior — played a part in the tragedy of this mother, and child.

If she had been spotted and helped during one of the numerous times she had been in contact with the law, the system might have saved not only her, but also the tiny newborn found wrapped in a towel, stuffed into a pillowcase and hidden among the garbage and the trash of a dumpster behind the hotel Sladon-Marler was staying at, says Rhodes.
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Two Moms, one military and one civilian clearly dealing with mental illness but no one took care of them. No one made sure they got the help they needed or made sure their children were safe yet what comes in emails? Crap about moral values from people so concerned with the life of the unborn they never have time to think about the living. There are two babies dead just from last weekend alone.

Will I read emails from these political zealots about either of these stories? No. They are never interested in doing anything to inform or actually do something about helping anyone.

The picked sides and the truth no longer matters to them. Humans in need never come into their minds or penetrate their stone cold hearts but they hide behind the title they believe they earned as a "Christian" using His name but never following in His footsteps. Spreading lies is not a value He would approve. Turning away from the poor, the sick, the needy is not something He would approve because He didn't approve of it when He walked this earth.

Matthew 25
The Sheep and the Goats
31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.

32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Bible Gateway

Do you do this for wounded? Do you do this for homeless? Do you do this for Christ's sake?