Olive Tree Blessings L137

Through one link God sent me another. Always follow the links, they are God’s Truth for your life and those that you are to help.

I landed at Pantry 279 today to Volunteer. The line was out the door when I arrived and was able to walk in as needed without a problem. Next – I found the one thing of importance as I filled out the new volunteer paperwork, a photo of Blessed Mother Mary on the table. I made sure to fill everything out with her in prayer.

One thing I worked on was bread. Seeing a massive pantry in action was eye opening. I have been learning so much about how they all work. Someone requested 5,000 hotdog buns from them so we were given a task to go through a shipment of items that were coming from a freezer. This shipment was several pallets full of thawed desserts, thawed hotdog buns, thawed hamburger buns and thawed loaves of bread. Why these didn’t come sorted already is a red flag to me. Given these all had different expiration dates was also a red flag to me. Being a volunteer of an organization or even working for an organization requires integrity, high morals and pristine ethics. If you aren’t on the download of what is truly the working wheels behind it all then what are you really doing? Volunteering to say you volunteered? Working without a cause and just doing whatever it takes for money, even if that means your integrity, morals and ethics are out the window?

That is how most of society works. We have million and billion dollar companies running the show condoning high end walks of life tainted with unethical choices. Everyone who signs up for this is simply condoning and enabling. 

Do you want to be an enabler or do you want to walk the walk?

When we are kids it’s different as we may not know better but The Lord says as soon as we come into knowing you are responsible. We all have choices to make everyday that alter our path. We all have choices to make everyday that either align with our values, morals and ethics or that we pretend not to see. 

While in the pantry I saw a product that was made in Korea and it said cruelty free. The fact that we even have to put that on a box says everything. We buy things from China and don’t think twice about where it comes from. We buy food and don’t think twice about where it comes from. All the while greed in our country then has a full on wide open gate to expand unethical behavior and choices that are then passed down to the consumer. 

I love the pantry life and the community kitchen life because how else would I see the true injustices? You have to look to see. You have to show up to see. You have to take a second and third look at all of the pieces to identify the true nature of any movement in life. Is it up to code? Probably not. Greed has taken over most of everything. Pride is driving most hearts and minds. The love of control tries to bully itself into everyone. That’s why people who see something and say something are imperative.

The poor are treated as if they don’t matter and they are all put into a tiny box that assumes you are the problem. The box assumes there is some need of recovery. The box assumes that the IQ is null and void. Never or shall I say very rarely does anyone think, “Oh. I see. They are poor because they are a victim of an outlandish act of injustice.”