A friend sent this to me. It kind of speaks for itself<\/p>\n
\nI went back home last week and had dinner with some old friends. It was fun chitter chatter about all the expected things. Now that we are a bit older, however, we started talking about more parental-type things – like how the schools were doing.
\nThe response, at first, seemed expected. They live in a nice, quiet area in the mountain west, the kids were good, there were quite a few Christian teachers, but unfortunately there were some serious drug problems in the high school now. That, I was soberly told, was because of “the immigrants.”
\nReally? I asked.
\nOh yes, the precious little town had become a \u201chaven\u201d for illegal immigrants and it was \u201cruining everything.\u201d
\nMy friends were convinced that a local Hispanic \u201cdrug ring,\u201d run by folks who worked at the local McDonald\u2019s, was responsible for all the drugs coming into the town.
\nAnd, my sweet friend said she had stopped giving money to a local charity who provided food, clothes and Christmas gifts to families in need.
\nWhy?
\nBecause now they were supporting mostly Hispanic immigrants, presumably illegal.
\nWhat truly shocked me about the exchange was that this friend, who by all accounts is a gentle, loving, generous Christian, visits the sick and takes food to shut-ins and volunteers at church. Apparently, her charity ends with immigrants? Maybe poor white people are more worthy of her efforts?
\nI know there are a lot of politics around immigration \u2013 problems with schools and health care and taxes. They are big, serious problems.
\nBut, it seems to me, Jesus sought out the poor, the different, the needy, even the \u201cundesirables\u201d of his day. Samaritans anyone? Tax collectors? In his day, children and women, for that matter. Forget government programs, it seems that immigrants \u2013 illegal or not \u2013 have as much right to eat, and to feed their children, as I do. It\u2019s all about \u201crights\u201d, isn\u2019t it? My friends thought the illegal immigrants did not have rights even to our charity. The \u201ccrumbs from my table\u201d as the Bible calls them and Bono sings about.
\nThe exchange made me feel even less comfortable, but even more blessed, to be sitting at my extravagant table at all, knowing I didn’t earn that right either. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A friend sent this to me. It kind of speaks for itself I went back home last week and had dinner with some old friends. It was fun chitter chatter about all the expected things. Now that we are a bit older, however, we started talking about more parental-type things – like how the schools…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"yoast_head":"\n
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