By: Dr. Jacquelyn Simmons
Scripture: Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity (love)…(I Corinthians 13:1).
Dear Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
This servant of God is still on her assigned mission to present to You some past and present dire straits of some of our Father’s beloved children due to mistreatments by some of their caregivers. This servant is prevailing upon You, as You sit at His right hand to plead their cases to Him because many of them cannot speak for themselves. Some of their cries can be heard from their graves-not wanting others to suffer the same unbelievable types of mistreatments which resulted in their earlier departures from this, Your created earth. This servant is relating some of them to You, although You are already aware of them.
Our buried grandfather appeared to one of our relatives a few days after his burial and said, “I am cold and wet”. The next day, we went to his grave and to our horror, we could see the top of his previously buried casket which was actually embedded in a ditch of water. It had rained after his funeral. After we informed the owners in the graveyard, they hurriedly sent someone to give him a decent burial. This writer and my now deceased former husband had purchased three graves near my grandfather and his wife’s graves many years earlier, and I still have evidence of purchase but do not know who the present owners are. Upon inquiring about them of the owners during that same time frame, I laughingly was told that an elderly lady was occupying the grave we had previously purchased for me. The other two…My former husband is buried in another graveyard. No one bothered to determine what happened to our ownership of the graves we had previously purchased.
My Jesus, this servant really did not mean to include the aforementioned situations in this message but, somehow…
Our deceased grandfather previously mentioned to me he had requested of his present wife if he ever became seriously ill not to send him to a hospital owned and operated in another state by the railroad company for which he had been employed for over fifty years. He said there was an obvious plan in place to get rid of African American workers who had been working for the company many years due to employees work descriptions becoming easier due to more modern equipment being used and the pay dramatically increased, also. They were trying to force them to teach new employees of other races how to perform their assigned jobs and found excuses to force many of them to quit or retire. He had refused to cooperate with the new plan.
Eventually, he finally became ill and his wife, against his previous requests sent him to the company hospital, anyway.
Upon eventually learning of his illness and hospital whereabouts, our “daddy”, his son, finally located him lying unattended on a cot which had been deliberately pushed under a flight of stairs in a hallway. He brought him home in which he remained several days and finally carried to a local hospital and soon afterwards, a water filled ditch burial…
