Insignificant - unimportant; too small to be important; of no consequence, influence, or distinction; without meaning, meaningless.
A patient I have seen for six months died recently. She was a woman who lived with her daughter after she was diagnosed with heart disease, then she was moved to a nursing home. Upon entering the nursing home, I noticed a marked decline, not only in her physical demeanor and stamina, but in her emotional well-being; she was very depressed. On my third visit to her in the nursing home, as I began the massage, she cried out to me, "Oh I cannot bear the insignificance!!" Selah
Though this woman was diagnosed with heart disease, I believe what hastened her death was a broken heart. She was deeply lonely, displaced, felt she had no value, and served no purpose; life had lost all meaning.
Nursing homes in America, for the most part, are warehouses for our elders, the last stop in the journey of life. When I walk through them I see people sitting (perhaps for hours) in wheel chairs. Many are bent over, unnoticed, and unattended to by the over-worked staff. Many are in medicated stupors. They are under-stimulated. They live in cramped rooms shared with a room-mate who talks too much or not at all, and plays the TV way too loud. And then there are the smells....
The loneliest people in our culture live there...
Our elders live there...
Our parents live there ...
Our dad lives there ...
Our mom lives there...
Jesus lives there ... in disguise
Will you visit Him?
Touch Him with tenderness?
Smile at Him with warmth?
Gently wipe the saliva off of His chin?
Look into His eyes and hold His gaze?
Listen, even if it is an incoherent utterance?
...respond?
Will you love Him?
Honor Him?
"... I was sick, and you visited Me..."
"Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me" Matt. 25:35,36,40
"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat." - Mother Teresa
Musical Inspiration: Follow You
Oh! ... that not another human soul cry out in utter emptiness and despair. Hear our prayer. Selah
