I recently went to the funeral of a friend that was held in a church
in the middle of the city. The funeral was a good service, I really
enjoyed the way the pastor and the music minister worked together as
the three-piece band played old-time hymns like I'll Fly Away and
Amazing Grace. The pastor would be humming and singing along with the
music and then he'd break off and say a couple of things and then he'd
go back into the song even as the music minister was singing also.
The husband of the lady that had passed away went to the microphone to
say a couple of words. He was very fat, morbidly obese would be the
medical term. Now this man had been in jail for as long as I knew
about him and had gotten out in the past year or so and I had an odd
thought as I watched him speak.
People make such a big deal about us needing to rehabilitate criminals
while they're in jail rather than punish criminals while they're in
jail. They talk about how we need to teach people to reach for
different foods instead of the easy or the cheap foods that are
available to them.
So how did this man get so fat while he was in jail? There's no way
that he had packed on 200 plus pounds in less than a year after
getting out of jail. And why didn't the penal system teach him and
help him by correcting him to make choices on his food intake?
It just seems odd to me that amidst all the cries for more action and
more money and more efforts, why didn't they do the right thing while
they had him in there as a literally captive audience? It just raises
questions for me.
