The Least Among Us
Most of you know I try to go out and get a beer with at least once a month with my neighbor who is an agnostic. He and I have become very close friends. He is a screaming, bed-wetting, left-winged, socialist democrat and I’m about as far to the right as you can get since I’m a Libertarian.
Last night was our planned night to go out. He called me and said that he would be a little late since his wife (a social worker) had something come up at the last minute and would tell me about it when we went out.
As it turns out, a 13 year old girl was wandering down MY STREET. One of my other neighbors was out walking and saw this girl; she approached her and the girl told her that she had just escaped from her family who was abusing and raping her. This neighbor took her back to her house and called….guess who….my friend’s wife who is the social worker. As it turns out, she had walked miles and miles trying to get away from her family and just happened to walk down my street.
So I look at my friend and say, “Why are you sitting here with me? Don’t you need to be home consoling your wife and making sure she’s ok after dealing with something so evil?” He looked quizzically at me and said “This is what she deals with every single day. You think she’s more shocked because one of them wandered over to our street?”
So the non-Christian social worker who makes $28K per year and already had 40 similar cases now gets to deal with one more disgusting case. I exclaim “that’s outrageous!” His reply? “You voted for Nikki Haley (tea party/Republican governor of SC). She’s announced she’s going to cut funding even further, so I guess (wife’s name)’s job will just have to get a little tougher.”
Now the bad news….ready? My friend told me the police will come and most likely take the child back to her family. The testimony of a child isn’t worth much unless it can be substantiated.
I’m a true political libertarian. I don’t believe that someone’s need gives them a claim to someone else’s property or time. They do however, have a claim on us via our claim as Christians. Where is the body of Christ? Why don’t we scream for justice for the least among us? How can we just pretend that girl is not really there? She’s there! She exists! What in the HELL are we doing?
Last night was our planned night to go out. He called me and said that he would be a little late since his wife (a social worker) had something come up at the last minute and would tell me about it when we went out.
As it turns out, a 13 year old girl was wandering down MY STREET. One of my other neighbors was out walking and saw this girl; she approached her and the girl told her that she had just escaped from her family who was abusing and raping her. This neighbor took her back to her house and called….guess who….my friend’s wife who is the social worker. As it turns out, she had walked miles and miles trying to get away from her family and just happened to walk down my street.
So I look at my friend and say, “Why are you sitting here with me? Don’t you need to be home consoling your wife and making sure she’s ok after dealing with something so evil?” He looked quizzically at me and said “This is what she deals with every single day. You think she’s more shocked because one of them wandered over to our street?”
So the non-Christian social worker who makes $28K per year and already had 40 similar cases now gets to deal with one more disgusting case. I exclaim “that’s outrageous!” His reply? “You voted for Nikki Haley (tea party/Republican governor of SC). She’s announced she’s going to cut funding even further, so I guess (wife’s name)’s job will just have to get a little tougher.”
Now the bad news….ready? My friend told me the police will come and most likely take the child back to her family. The testimony of a child isn’t worth much unless it can be substantiated.
I’m a true political libertarian. I don’t believe that someone’s need gives them a claim to someone else’s property or time. They do however, have a claim on us via our claim as Christians. Where is the body of Christ? Why don’t we scream for justice for the least among us? How can we just pretend that girl is not really there? She’s there! She exists! What in the HELL are we doing?
