Last week, as I was contemplating a relative who is aged to the point that they can't care for themselves, I began to wonder why God allows aging to the point of dependency. When people's mental faculties diminish to the point that they don't know what day it is, much less how to cook a meal or drive a car - they can no longer be the hands and feet of Christ. So why does God leave them here in their confused and frustrated state when he could so easily call them home?
So here's what I came up with:
Without nursing homes who would the school groups go caroling to or do other visitation projects? Well, they could still go to hospitals or homeless shelters.
Maybe the Association of Elder Care Workers has made a big contribution to God's political campaign so he's rewarding them with steady work?
Well, if God wanted to bless people with work it would happen. If great numbers of elder care workers were suddenly out of work God could create a new industry that we can't even conceive yet.
I'm starting to think the purpose of their aging is so that their children or other family will once again learn to work together. By this time in a parent's life cycle the children are grown and split off into their own family factions. Many times there are years of hurt feelings built up between them for various reasons.
In Dr. Phil style I might ask, "How's that working for you God?"
In my observations a few outcomes occur:
1. The family comes together, works it out, and goes their separate way again
2. The family comes together, but some do more than others and additional resentment builds
3. They don't come together at all and wind up fighting about everything.
So - I'm still left wondering, what is the point of aging. Any ideas out there?
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