Not sure how this will turn out, but here goes as it needs to be aired. Being in the public practice of Christian Science, one naturally is privy to all kinds of situations. And one has come to my attention which I've been thinking about a lot. And that is building one's house--not on rock--but on sinking sand. There is a Christian Science facility in another state from my own, and I've been helping the Administrator with enormous challenges. The challenges involve trying to please a Board of Directors, all supposed Christian Scientists, whose bottom line is, let's squeeze every cent we can out of the little old ladies who come to our facility! I kid you not. There is not a thought about Christian kindness or help, really. Just we must make this enterprise successful, even if we mistreat our residents and work our employees, nearly to death.
Now, if one is trying to make a commercial venture go, this mindset might be justified. But when an enterprise has the name Christian Science attached to it? Wrong, and as just about anyone can see, the eventual outcome isn't good. As Jesus makes plain in his parable of the two houses, one on rock and the other on sand, the inevitable will occur when storms come. We are in a storm economically, it would appear to human sense. But this is no excuse for treating residents, and patients and staff worse than dogs. Is money one can wring out worth running afoul of God's laws?! Would not so-called success be failure on these terms?
Our dear Master warns: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." This from the same hillside sermon in which he talked about the two houses. I, along with probably many of you out there, can see a parallel with the Church Center and its activities where getting is sometimes more important than giving out Christian love and support. This has been remarked on by many comments on my blog and one other I can think of. So, it is a perception that must have a basis in fact, in actions, in what is between the lines of nice-sounding metaphysics. But folks, it is our holy religion we are talking about, not just some business out there. And until we get the expressing to others the love and giving Jesus taught, I fear we are going to continue sinking deeper down.
This is all for now. But God is not going to be mocked, and if enterprises that flout His laws and commandments are ignored, well they may crash. This cannot be helped. But it can be avoided if people will truly put first things first.
