During the years, I have been in a few rest homes. Some say that I belong in one right now. Haha, very funny. However, when we think of a rest home, ugly and disgusting smells invade our olfactory nerve. We think of multiple wheelchairs and hunkered over souls shuffling down a lonely and sparse, and empty hall. If we focus on rest homes, we might get depressed. For, rest homes are similar to our so-called humane societies. The main difference is that we don't "put down" the aged. Yet. Rest homes are where we put the discarded of society. Those old shufflers are out of our sight and thus out of our daily lives and thoughts. They're not gone, just left out. What is the Bible's solution to this problem? Look here in 1 Timothy 5:4, "But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God." WHAT...
These are devotional, and other, thoughts from a guy who lived in Brazil from 1997 to 2023. I recount personal experiences and Bible applications with most of my posts. These "posts" are mostly for me but if you want to, you can read them too!