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LIVING IN A WORLD OF ANGER, HATRED, RACISM, FEAR, DISRESPECT, IGNORANCE & POWER

My Morning Devotional Reading

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I am not open to sugar coating what I see, hear and experience on a daily basis. I will start with the afternoon following a tumultuous day at the medical facility where I work. Early in the day I prepared myself to see a patient who I had not met, with the mindset that I could talk to and pray prior to his difficult upcoming surgery. When I walked into the room, the patient (an older caucasian male in his middle 70's) responded to my greeting (good afternoon, I am Chaplain Rev. McCray). His response was "they don't have any white chaplains?"  I responded "of course they do, let me find one to visit you.

 

I walked out of the room thinking that ignorance is bliss and I don't get paid to help a grown man, who may or may not have had some education to show respect to a stranger or better an educated, kind, open black womyn hired as a chaplain to help make his time in the hospital as comfortable as possible.

 

The reality is that we are living in a difficult time, under the leadership of a broken, narcissistic, mentally unstable individual who influences others with hate and fear. 

 

Later that week, I found myself on the metro enroute home and passed an older white male on the platform waiting  for the same train, as I became closer to him I realized that he was staring at me (I had on my clergy collar), and I assumed he was going to speak to me, and unfortunately he turned his head and spit on me. I immediately recognized his ignorance and just kept walking. In my mind, I thought "my job is to wake up in my own bed the next morning." As a younger person in her teens or early 20"s I would have done something that would change his life forever (which would have changed my life as well). All I could think of was that "ignorance is truly bliss." 

 

Not a sermon, just a thought!

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Elder Akosua McCray

Founding Pastor of UFCDC