Each week at church, I inevitably will ask a man how his job is going. His response will be “Well, I’m currently out of work and looking.” I will show him compassion and then respond by saying “I’ll be praying for you.”
While my comments are sincere, I walk away with a high sense of frustration as there is nothing I can do to help him. It breaks my heart when a man is unemployed for the following reasons:
- I hate seeing the embarrassment and sense of defeat in his slumped shoulders and eyes.
- He has a sense of failure because he can’t provide for his family.
- His wife develops varying levels of insecurity.
- The marriage suffers. Each of the past few weeks I have met couples that are divorcing. What each had in common was the husband had employment issues.
- Generational issues then arise as the children are more likely to suffer in school and face similar marital instability when they reach adulthood.
Well, I have reached such a state of holy discontent that I am working on a plan to address these issues at a local church level. I hope I succeed as this has reached a point of crisis.
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