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Meg’s Grace
There’s this nice young lady at my bank. She’s very outspoken, forever discussing social issues with customers. I noticed that she invariably proffered a liberal perspective and I thought it odd because she wore a “What Would Jesus Do?” bracelet. One day, I had the occasion (no one was in line behind me) to discuss her animosity toward President Bush. That’s when she told me that she had a Degree in social work but she couldn’t get a job in that field because George Bush wasn’t funding social programs properly. She also thought that “The BBC is a great place for the truth” and “Fox News is biased”. I figured her for a lost cause but I wanted to leave her with something to think about with regard to the immoral nature of social programs. I told her how I couldn’t afford health insurance, even though I worked sixty hours a week but was paying for the health insurance of others through taxes. I didn’t have time to tell her about the fact that I couldn’t afford an IRA because of the social security taxes I am forced to pay. Or that I can’t afford private school for my children because of the public school taxes that I am forced to pay and where the question of what Jesus would do could never be asked. Anyway, Meg no longer works at the bank. I asked another teller what happened to her and was told that she joined the Peace Corps. I left the bank laughing to myself but also feeling sorry for Meg because she was so conflicted. Then I got thinking about how tough it’s going to be to prevent my children from being indoctrinated the same way Meg was. I remember when I was young and walked to Church. As I got older I would usually stand at the back where I could skip out early but I always listened to the reading of the Gospel and most of what I needed to know in life came from there. In hindsight, going to public schools was very conflicting for me. I couldn’t reconcile the evolution and survival of the fittest being taught there, with the basics of citizenship and morality that I got from Church. By the time I graduated from high school I had stopped going to church but once my stay in public school was over I began thinking for myself again and re-established my faith. So, for Meg who wears her heart on her sleeve with her WWJD bracelet, here is my answer. He would want you to teach people to fish. If you give a man a fish you have fed him for one day but if you teach him to fish you feed him for life. As a taxpayer funded social worker you are taking fish from the fisherman and giving it to someone who doesn’t know how to (or in most cases won’t) fish. It’s a disservice to both.
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