Hi God,
Not surprisingly, I’m thinking about health care.
I’m thinking about it because one of us
had a “procedure” today.
I’m also thinking about it
because half the country seems
little inclined to see that everyone
receives adequate health care.
“Hey, we can’t afford it”.
Why is that, exactly?
Isn’t “cost” often a decision about
who gets to be rich and who not?
Please explain to me where “cost”
is an issue in the story in Matthew 25?
You know the part that says,
“35
For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
a stranger and you welcomed me,
36
naked and you clothed me,
ill and you cared for me,
in prison and you visited me.”
My Bible is missing the part that says,
“40
… Amen, I say to you,
whatever you did [when you felt you could afford it]
for one of these least brothers of mine,
you did for me.”
The part in brackets there,
[when you felt you could afford it].
It’s not in my Bible.
But it’s in the one being read by many of us.
Why is that?
Why do we have different versions?
So my prayer today
is that you find a way to clarify your message to us dummies.
That you pour your Holy Spirit into us
and change our hearts.
That we eschew peripheral things
and focus on what you’ve been trying
to tell us for several millenia,
but which we seem to keep not getting.
Help us get it…eventually.
We only have a few years here.
Also, please have mercy on all our souls
sinners though we obviously be.
Amen