LETTER TO THE EDITOR

God is displeased

Friday,  December 2, 2005

Dear Sir,      

I was in church on the Sabbath, by the way the Sabbath is not done away with, it is a trick of the devil to mislead the world and snare their soul in times yet to come.

We had a musical Sabbath singing praises to the Lord and tears were in my eyes as the Jamaicans that make up the churches here led it in song. I saw a strong, courageous, and bold people lifting their heads in this time of perplexity.

It is amazing how selfish Cayman Islands have become against a nation whose history is in this Island even more than any other nation, a people I hear assisted us in the past before we were established as we struggled like they are now to survive.

It is amazing how selfishness could overlook a people in need, a people that are desperate and have to abandon their families to survive.

The end of this world is near and Cayman Islands will be weighed in the balance and found wanting for you have broken a major Commandment of God. “You shall love thy neighbor as thyself.” For those who say the Commandments of God the Father well there it is. Look carefully though these Commandments of Jesus are only an abbreviation of the Ten.

I am broken-hearted and feel guilty in the eyes of my brother and sisters because I am a part of a society that has rejected a desperate people. I walk with my head down, I feel separated, I cannot look at them in the eye and I am conscious of their pain.

 It is shocking and my life has change because I never suspected that this would happen in a million years that Cayman Islands reject the needy.

If you are wondering why I am not mentioning the other countries that need visas, the focus of Cayman is on Jamaica only who are in need because their Government failed them.

Wake up Cayman Islands the day will come when we will need them. How quickly you forget Hurricane Ivan and the tiny tremor that tells us the possibility of a bigger one.

You have never seen hard times in your life time. The hard times were here before you existed and Jamaica was there to help, now the future of your kids are sure. A Jamaican has to get up each morning, sit on the edge of his bed, if he has one, and wonder ‘what will I do today to see a bright and promising future for my kids?’

He sees only a struggle today in the broiling sun, if he can find a job, to get bread for broken-hearted children. He thinks of his children instead of going to college or even finishing school who will have to drop out and help get bread. Have you ever been to Jamaica, what you will see is the country in a systemic mode trying everything to survive?

People are in the streets, on the side of the streets, laying, sitting with outstretched hands hoping to receive bread, while their children walk hungry to school and the children have no other choice but to beg you or me while their dollar get lower each day.

It is a situation that sent them to us. We have too much. Jesus Christ is a perfect example, he left home, became all man, he was hungry and thirsty with nowhere to lay his head just to save us unto himself so that where he is there we maybe also and he stressed the point to love our neighbors and share everything with them.

“When the son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

“For I was a stranger and you took me in, naked and ye clothed me, I was sick, and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came unto me.”

Ye are the Cayman Islands.

“Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these (Jamaica) ye did it not to me (Jesus).”

Where is the fear of God in you gone? Satan is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour and delights in war and contention and creates enmity between nations. We are under attack, revoke this order. God is displeased. 

Amanda Wright.

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