The Elitist Politico: A Proliferate who takes the Word "Regard" away from Truths meaning. : God claims Earth and everything in it. God claims World and all who live on it. (Psalm 24:1-2 The Message)

One of the most cynical espoused assumptions an administrator could make would be to believe that residents placed in a nursing home are senile and can never think.

As a result, such dismiss subtle leads, overlook significant clues, and neglect important aspects of experiences in connecting with others during investigation.

In this generic stereotype about people those blinders become apparent where profiteer attitudes partake in disgraceful care levels reflective of mere dumping ground for what are considered already the living dead.

We indeed go down blind alleys when we rely strictly on assumptions, labels, stereotypes and think about people in a simplistic way.

Labeling of people and things always has hidden liabilities.

For one, it diminishes and depletes their depth.

Many assumptions we draw from labeling keep life at the level of superficiality.

We neglect to question our conclusions. So labeling has its purposes - Limited purposes.
When it is productive, it serves to help us make quick, sometimes lifesaving decisions.

We need to use labels to size up some things. There are times when we must make temporary decisions until we have more information or experience about a situation or person.

But for the most part, we tend to label for the wrong reasons. When we use labeling to make assumptions against others - or to make excuses for ourselves - we infer broader qualities about a person or situation without the information necessary to support our conclusions.

Sometimes, the consequences can be destructive not only to others but to ourselves.

Along with the beliefs most people have that they naturally know how to think well is the underlying, correlating assumption that thinking doesn't require much effort or time.

While we are fortunate to live in a society that allows us to use our time efficiently in every day living, we have unfortunately come to expect results to be as quick as service at a fast-food restaurant.

We are encouraged to use our time efficiently, but we seldom take the time to think efficiently.

Confronted with real-life problems, we imagine they can all be dealt with as quickly and easily as a thirty-minute television sitcom would portray them to be.

As a result, many people show little interest in contemplation. The effort involved in truly thinking often takes a back seat, and they end up going in circles rather than dealing with life's various dilemmas efficiently.

In this simplistic approach, we often overlook various aspects of our lives that are Desperate for Attention until they Become Full-Blown Crises. Or we dismiss new ideas the could further our growth simply because they Do Not Fit within the General Framework or our Preconceived Notions and self-concepts.

The world is a competitive place.

We compete over resources, opportunities, education, jobs, relationships, and the basic necessities of life.

In the process it becomes patently obvious that life in this world can be a 'Cutthroat business that Inflicts an Incredible amount of pain.

Daily we rub shoulder with the "walking wounded."
Sometimes these wounds come from others; sometimes they are self-inflicted; sometimes they come from Abusive and Competitive Systems.

No matter how these Injuries Occur, Suffering People need to Meet the Compassion of Jesus.

Jesus showed compassion to Outcasts, Prostitutes, IRS agents, Crowds, Beggars, Women, Foreigners, Societal outcasts, as well as those with communicable diseases.

He saw the People that Others Overlooked.
And He Was Quick to Feel for Them rather than Label them as lazy, promiscuous, self-destructive or "A Piece of Work."

When neglectful leaders passed judgement on women they didn't know, Jesus said to them do you see this women? (Luke 7:44)

They saw only appearances. They didn't feel for the women because they did not see her.

Jesus really sees the Hungry, the Poor, the Grieving, the Physically impaired, the Mentally deranged, the Demonically oppressed, and the "Culturally Marginalized".
And what he sees moves him to compassion. But it does not stop there. For Jesus, compassion was a Call to Action, to Healing and to Restoration.

The early church to Jesus' example of compassion took God's Word very seriously.

History recounts how the Infant Church Shocked the Roman World with its compassion for others in the midst of plagues, war and persecution.

Some historians claim the the compassion of Christians was One Reason why Roman Religion gave way to Christianity within a space of three hundred years.

Christ is still longing to touch this suffering world through the compassion of his church, and his apprentices are people of compassion.

They know how to look for Pain in the Eyes of Others.

They Know that Labels do not help people change.

They believe that love always has Hands and Feet.

It is our choices 'NOW' that will reveal whether the church today becomes known as a Well-Spring of compassion or a place where No One Particularly Cares.

Consider who the outsiders and disenfranchised are in your community.

Choose one of these groups and find out something about them.

What do they Need? What do they have to give? Where is God calling You to walk in his compassion?

Compassion means feeling with and for others as well as extending Mercy and 'Help' to them in extravagantly practical ways.

Compassion is part and parcel of sharing in God's Heart for an Aching and Wounded world.

Read the newspaper or listen to the news as a call to Prayer and Compassion.

Find the opportunity and means to comfort, encourage, and support those who struggle, suffer and are oppressed that seeks to heal wounds rather than reaction to the wounded.

Christians are to exercise Loving Dominion that Honors Scriptural Values and Leaves Future Generations What They Will Need.