Sunday, October 17, 1999
Sunday, October 17, 1999
For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you
an example, so that you should follow in his steps.
Dorothea Dix dedicated the rest of her life to helping these women. For over forty years, despite
her poor health and weak body, she labored for others, giving of herself. When she died, she left
thirty mental hospitals as monuments to her sense of responsibility for people whom the rest of
society looked down upon.
Jesus is Lord of all. But there is a cost to following him.
(1 Peter 2:21
NRSV)
A New England school teacher took early retirement because of health problems. One day she
was visited by a divinity student who asked for her help. He told her he felt inadequate for the
task before him. The task was visiting women who were prisoners in jail. The retired school
teacher, Dorothea Dix, agreed to help. While visiting these women prisoners she saw things she
did not know existed. All the women were mixed together--there were those who were insane and
those who were murderers, living right alongside those guilty of only misdemeanors.
Loving God, help me to be willing to pay the price to truly fulfill my calling. Amen.
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