Thanksgiving at Fair Acres - Christianity Today Magazine

This article simply made me want to cry from guilt and despair. Virginia Owens has really captured the spirit of the nursing home, and has spotlighted an all too common reaction from residents and visitors--a thinn veneer of Christian "goodness" underlying a deep apathy.

I'm not divorced from this either. I remember going with dread to visit my grandfather in the nursing home. His twisted and grotesque body strapped to his wheelchair, my grandmother smuggling in the contraband Three Musketeers bar, and me, trying to keep up my four year old enthusaism, and masking the feeling of horror and dread. It is, sadly, my only memory of my grandfather.

Oh, what will it take to break through, for us individually and as a society to lend simple human dignity to the aged? We have come far in our care for those dealing with the incessant ticking of life's clock.

But where are we going?

Thanksgiving at Fair Acres - Christianity Today Magazine