I am grateful for workmen and the medical community too, I have had more problems solved and pain relieved because of doctors, nurses, plumbers, builders, and other workers than things that were not solved.
The Lord has blessed this country with amazing people and ideas that help us heal and resolve problems. Of course there are those who make mistakes, doesn't everyone!!!! But for the most part we have good repair men and good doctors and nurses that make our lives much easier.
When we do nothing but criticize those in helping professions, perhaps we are excluding all those who do a wonderful job and even sacrificially. We should not come down hard on any one profession simply because they are not perfect.
The is no such thing as ALL good or ALL bad in the helping professions, everyone has warts but if we only look at the tiny wart while there are experts out there doing a wonderful job, then we might be called a narcissist, who expect others to be perfect even though the ungrateful narc is not perfect themselves.
I am reminded of the "cafeteria food" mentality when I was attending college. Nearly everyone I met complained about the food, just because it was expected. I liked the food, saw nothing wrong with it and was even blessed by the people that served it to me.
Perhaps this is what we are experiencing in the "natural food" craze, perfection, it is popular now to see everything as tainted and poisonous, when most of us eat the regular non-organic food every day and have no more problems than those who eat all organic. Actually, we who do not go organic, save a lot of money because the non-organic is cheaper than the organic. There is no real scientific evidence that organic is any better than non-organic.
My point? Far too often we jump on the "complaining about everything" band wagon when there really isn't a lot to complain about, it's just expected and popular.
Perhaps we ought to start thinking with our own mind rather than buying into all the hype of the culture about food, about the helping professions and about theology. Yes, even in theology there is more of human tradition inculcated than actual Scripture.
When we think for ourselves, evaluate what we have heard, often we find there is very little validity to most of what we hear. The Bible is my source, He told us to eat our food with thanksgiving, and to be thankful for all things, that doesn't leave much room for whining and complaining about our food or resources.
Personally, I thank God everyday for the food, I thank Him for the medical profession in this country and I thank Him for the availability of everything. He has provided all this, although it is not perfect, it remains wonderful.
We are a spoiled lot, we expect everything instantaneously and just the way we like it, perfectly! We can help to improve what is not yet perfect, but perhaps we should think twice before condemning an entire profession or food source.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 "…17 Pray without ceasing. 18 Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not extinguish the Spirit.…"
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