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In case you don't know, didn't understand, maybe never even really heard the word Maundy Thursday. Today is the Thursday before Easter during Holy Week, where the Last Supper took place. And at the Last Supper, among other things, Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, as well as giving them the command that they should love one another. Now, I think it's very ironic that today being Maundy Thursday and the type of stuff that's going on out in the world today, it's absolutely mind-boggling, that there are people out there that claim to be of God, people of God, believers, and yet they still have the attitude that they do.
With the Last Supper, Jesus knew that his time had come, that he was going to have to leave his disciples, and it was kind of like the last teachings. Like, let me put these things out here for you, just in case, hey, do this, do that. He knew they were coming for him. He knew that it was time for him to die.
And so let me express to them how they should be treating one another. And I'm not getting that in the world today. I'm not seeing people treating others with respect, and dignity, and love, and kindness. It's absolutely crazy.
I just want to celebrate a little on the irony of today and what I noticed. I got up this morning, went to see what was trending, and noticed Bill O'Reilly was trending, and it's like, hmm, I wonder what that's about. Well, come to find out. He was on Sean Hannity's radio show, and some of the stuff that some of these people out here, these far-right people are saying, blows me away.
I wonder where is the humanity? For Hannity's name to sound so close to humanity, I wonder where it is. Their discussion was basically that Sean Hannity is ready for everybody to go back to normal, and let's get this economy running again. And in his remarks with Bill O'Reilly was like, can you make that happen?
Can you do that? And Bill is like, I wish I could. These numbers that are putting out about the coronavirus and people dying are wrong because these people were on their last leg anyway. The people that are dying were on their last legs anyway.
And so that just seems like such a Thanos response to something where where is your compassion? Where is your brain? So because somebody has cancer, and the way that this sounds to me is if a person has cancer, and then they die in a hit and run with a drunk driver, then it's like, oh, but they were on their last legs anyway. They had cancer.
No, it doesn't work like that. You can't blow that off. It'd be like, oh, that life didn't even matter anymore, because the fact that we are here, and that if you have breath in your body, you matter. You count.
There's a reason why you're here. And for them to just shrug off people dying, that infuriates me because although it hasn't hit hard close to home, we've had a couple of relatives that tested positive, and they're on the, they've already crossed the rough side of the mountain. They're getting better now. But there are people out there who have lost loved ones, and my heart hurts for them.
I have compassion for them. I have empathy for what they've gone through, because I won't understand that. I can't understand that. Just like with my husband and I losing our son when he was four months old, people can't fathom that pain, because you haven't been through it.
But at least show me some empathy, at least show me some grace, at least show me some love. But the callousness of these people on the right, and how they're like, you know what? Just get over it already, people. Stop social distancing.
Get out there. Go back to work. Start making money again. Make money for this country so that we can line our pockets and whatnot, because the sad thing is, is the people with the money that are in a rush to get back to the money.
The people that didn't have the money to start with, yeah, they're probably feeling some type of way. They're nervous, because they don't know how they're going to pay their next bill, because they haven't been working. But there's a more humane part to this whole situation, and I feel like people are missing the point. To take this episode in a better direction, even though it's kind of sad here with this one, I also noticed that there was a tag that was trending.
It was R.I.P. Lonnie. And I was like, you know what? Who was Lonnie?
Let me check the C. And the story goes that four years ago, a grandmother by the name of Wanda went to invite her grandchildren to Thanksgiving, and she dialed the wrong number in her text and actually reached a guy by the name of Jamal. Well, Jamal reached out to Wanda to let her know, hey, I think you sent this message to the wrong person. And Wanda said, you know what?
Come have Thanksgiving with us anyway. And this started a wonderful relationship of people that didn't even know each other, that met by way of an accident, but still turned it into a loving family type situation. Wanda didn't have to tell Jamal to go ahead and come on over for Thanksgiving. She could have said, oh, my bad, I'm sorry.
She could have not even replied at all and just been like, oh, laugh at herself. And then dialed the right number for her grandchildren. But she didn't. She opened her home to a stranger at a time of Thanksgiving to give thanks.
And unfortunately, Wanda's husband Lonnie has passed due to COVID-19. And so because their story was out there, his passing touched a lot of people too. And I'm not even going to lie. It touched me when I found out who Lonnie is and how this was even a being.
But to me, this speaks to what Mandy Thursday is about, loving one another, looking out for one another, being there for somebody other than yourself. Jesus was the master, but yet he served the people under him. He washed their feet. That's something that a servant would do for the guest in a house.
And yeah, so I just, oh, these are some difficult times, not just because of COVID-19, but because of the attitudes out there of people and how, I guess, in a good way, it's good that people are showing us who they really are. Because then you're not surprised. When somebody shows you who they are, you're supposed to believe them. You don't rush it off and say, well, no, maybe they're just having a bad day.
No, you're supposed to believe them. Because truth be told, trust and believe, they'll come back and they'll show you again. And then when you're sitting there with your hands in the air, wondering why, there's no question. There's no wonder.
Because they showed you that they had no compassion. They lacked compassion. They lacked love in their hearts for other people. They only love themselves.
They only love things that are about them. And it's a sad place to be, sad way to live, but it's reality. That was today's episode of Tweet Trends. Do me a favor and head on over to Twitter and follow me at hey, that's at heeeeet.
Or just look for the hashtag tweet trends. Well, today being Monday, Thursday, find a way to serve your friends, relatives, a stranger. And I realized that in this season of social distancing, being able to get close enough to someone to hypothetically wash their feet, to show them compassion and love, it's not necessarily physically possible. You could do it for the people within your household.
But find a way to reach out to somebody, maybe somebody you haven't talked to in a long time. And just ask them how they're doing. Reconnect. And find a way to share God's love today.
All right, guys. Have a great weekend. Hope you have an awesome Easter. And I'll be back here on Tuesday.