Pure Insanity is

what I witnessed today. (click on photo's to enlarge)


LOOK HARD CAN YOU SEE THEM?????


The Dump

Today I took a trip to the city dump. I have been hearing about a community of people who "live" in the dump and I until yesterday had not made the choice to "go there and see". I have a very difficult time just seeing people in the dumpsters in the city looking for food or other things they need. To me there was nothing worse...until the dump!

I decided to go, we were bringing a torch group in to feed the people lunch. We bought 400 bags of water and made 250 sandwiches.
You enter the dump from the main street and drive along a dirt road. You know where you are just by the smell. As you are driving you turn a corner and in front of you is the most horrific sight, piles and piles of garbage and 100's of people and 100's of vultures digging in the same trash. When a new truck comes to dump it's load, the people and vultures swarm the load that is dropping all desperate to find what the load has to offer, all desperate for survival.
Men, women AND children. Oh no, that is part of the horror, children!! Then you turn and behind you, their homes, no, you can't call them that, really... Boxes is all they are to gain some any kind of shelter. The people are dirty, I don't know when they have bathed last if ever..their clothes and shoes caked with garbage, they smell. There IS no access to clean water of any kind. I was reminded of Jesus as he served among those who were untouchable.


the houses


Lined up

I watched as 100's of people lined up behind our bus to get their small little lunch, while some found it more valuable to keep "working" as the loads were coming in.
I watched as one women dug through the garbage and was taking any food she could find; a handful of spaghetti, half eaten tortilla, meat and bones.. it all going in one bag. The thought to me that she and others were going to eat that combination of food was just sickening to me.
Some were sorting out plastic, glass, cardboard..it seemed some worked together in the sorting process so they could be more efficient with there time. Others seemed to be on their own. It was a scary place, a place that screams desperation at the top of it's lungs, it was in the air and it was frightening.

As I stood there, I was really mad!!! Sad but really MAD! There is NOTHING that is ok about this. There is nothing to make sense of and there is nothing to rationalize. It is wrong and SHAME ON US that this is a reality for anyone. Yes shame on us, and especially those of us who wear the name of The Christ!. While we have lived only for ourselves and chosen the fights of religious nonsense people are starving and dying in the worst conditions you can fathom, no you can't fathom because it is your worst nightmare come true. I could have never thought that insanity up in my head but I stood in the midst of it, it is real!
We take all that is given us and we somehow rationalize that it is for our own pleasure, happiness and joy. I can tell you were that comes from, SATAN! While we think our measly giving is enough and we buy, we travel, we live to our hearts content..the world around us dies!!! When did we decide this was ok....and hasn't satan done a wonderful job at blowing the smoke screen that we live behind and has us feeling just fine about it all.



For years I was so blinded by what I thought was living a life of faith. Making sure I lived a moral life, going to church, the right church mind you, one with lots of great programs, giving my 10%, supporting a few good ministries, going to a soup kitchen now and then, no drinking, no smoking, no bad language, modest dress of course, fight for prayer in school, being appalled at the abortion issue, being a good republican, read my bible and pray everyday. I was taught to think that spreading the gospel was a conversion effort, the right conversion of course.
WOW! It pains me just to write that!!
But now...

Isaiah 58

6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness [a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
"If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
with the pointing finger and malicious talk,

10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
then your light will rise in the darkness,
and your night will become like the noonday.

James 2:14-18
"What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.”

Matthew 25:34ff
“But when the Son of Man[d] comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. 32 All the nations[e] will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.

34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. 36 I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’

37 “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? 39 When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,[f] you were doing it to me!’

41 “Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.[g] 42 For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

44 “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’

45 “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’

46 “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”

I see that the good fight, the narrow road, to carry my cross; Is to live for others, that have noone...thats the hard call!! To deny myself is to deny my comforts, pleasures and many wants for those who have NOTHING. To live simply so others my simply live. To work to gain more so I can give more and take care of the kingdom in my midst.
To show the world Christ is not marching with a banner declaring my moral high road, it is going "to the dump" and looking into the eyes of the forgotten and saying NOT ON MY WATCH will this be your reality.