Dear God
Letters to the Lord
8-4-22
Dear God:
Why do humans have such an obsession over jobs? Everyone's life here on earth is based upon "what they do" and not "who they are." Additionally, if what you "do" is not worthy enough to be considered a real "job" in this society, then you are shunned.
I know You couldn't care less about jobs and did not create us to be worker bees or mindless machines and nothing else. I know You want us to live our lives in who we are, since we are not taking our jobs to the great beyond. So then why do I still have this nagging feeling that I'm a slacker and a loser in society because I don't currently have a real "job?"
You know that for the past year I am caregiver to my disabled mom, and You know that the world does not consider this a real "job." Most caregivers to relatives are considered losers who cannot get real jobs. Most caregivers who spend years and sometimes decades caring for someone else, outside of the traditional "medical field," will be considered "gapped" and unemployable for any new job in the future. The skills, work and empathy independent caregivers have gained in their non-real "job" are not transferrable to the real world and real "jobs."
The same thing happens to parents who do the work of staying home and raising children. Society does not consider this a real "job" with no skills or work experience obtained at all. Caring for the young and the old in this world are career-killing activities. The world says so. I wish it wasn't.
I remember when I had a real "job" last year before I quit for refusing the poison shots. At that time I was a caregiver for my mom on a part-time basis. I remember thinking most days that the tasks I did for my mom felt so much more important than the tasks I did at my real "job." So in losing my real job, I only really lost money, society's esteem, and any future chance of getting another real "job" in the future. I have lost everything that matters to this world. But I have gained everything that matters to You and the next world.
I know Jesus never really had a real "job" and was homeless for all of his ministry. If Jesus had lived to a ripe old age, he would have been "gapped" out of ever getting a real "job" again, since he was a caregiver, and took care of everybody for three years. It wasn't a "real" job according to society. But Jesus did exactly what we should be doing and You took care of Him.
Please Lord, help the caregivers, stay-at-home parents and all those people doing "jobs" society doesn't consider "real" but in reality are the only jobs that matter. Give them strength and blessings to continue their good works. Show the world that charity is the only job description worth having on a resume.
Sincerely,
Napoleon
Good post. After I read your post, I watched "Touched by an Angel."
Never saw the episode. It was about an older married couple who were having their first baby in their 40's. Early in the pregnancy the couple found out that the baby boy would be born with Down Syndrome. The father was depressed and angry that his first (and possible only) baby would be "retarded." The father said he couldn't deal with raising a retarded child for the rest of his life and wanted his wife to abort the baby and they would try again for a normal baby.
The mother couldn't abort the baby, even though she was "pro choice." The husband was angry at his wife for deciding to keep a retarded child because it would ruin both of their lives forever, as they would never have a normal family and they would be caretakers to a child who would never be normal (never go to college and have a real job), plus the expenses with raising a Down Syndrome child would bankrupt them.
The angels tried to convince the father that the "normal" life he wanted for themselves and their child was not going to happen, and he needed to believe that God would see them through the raising of a disabled child, and all that mattered was love.
In the end the wife ended up getting shot by a robber at seven months, and had the baby by caesarean. The angels were shocked as God had not told the angels that the wife would be shot. She was shot by a human that was exercising his free will. The wife ended up in a coma, and the doctors said she would probably be brain damaged if she were to wake up from her coma.
The husband ended up raising the baby on his own while his wife lay in a hospital bed in a coma. He told his wife that when she wakes up they will get through this life together.
Then the show ended. We never found out if the wife woke up from her coma and if she was brain damaged.
The show was about humans being caretakers to other humans. Life NEVER goes as one expects. NEVER.
Caretakers are undervalued in our society. Basically caretakers are crapped upon by the "normal" people with the normal jobs and normal lives. Caretaking is depressing and rarely pays a living wage. A caretaker has to have faith in God, that he will take care of the caretaker's expenses and mental health.
I admire your conscience and courage to do what you know is right. That is what counts in the long run. People who put occupation, money, and fame ahead of family obligations are reaping earthy rewards vs eternal rewards.