The Father loved the Son. The Son loved the Father. The Love was so great that the Son agreed to redeem his Father's creation that we would have the opportunity of Salvation over sin and death. Receiving a gift we didn't deserve in lieu of the certainty that we did deserve. A love so great that the Son was willing to go to the Cross that the redemption might be complete. Some did not have the Love I shared with my father. Willie Arthur McClenton was a tremendous man, married to the same woman, my mother, Marva Louis Dismukes, his high school sweetheart, over 60 years, since 1959. He died April 8, 2025, Unfortunately, I missed his funeral. At least, I was able to watch it via livestreaming.. I know, I know. Many of you are asking, "How could you miss your father's funeral?" Some of you are feeling downright judgemental! I was sidelined, bedridden by five strokes, immovable in the words of Sir Isaac Newton. My father was my icon. My hero. He was a good student and maintained perfect attendance. I was a good student. A chip off the old block you might say. I did that perfect attendance thing one year and swore I would never again. It takes too much out of you. Having loved God since his earliest years in Sunday school at New Hope Church, through his service as an usher and deacon at Covenant Baptist Church, and in his final years at St. Mark A.M.E. Church. He taught me to Love God with all your body, all your mind and all your soul. Otherwise, you are lazy and trifling. My father was from the silent generation. You did not want him to call you "lazy and trifling", He would go nuclear! I remember the summer afternoon I told him I was bored.He told me to take a pair of grass clippers and cut the front lawn. "Stop being so lazy and trifling!" Trust me, never again!
Faith was an essential core of maturation. My Father taught me and showed me how to live by the Word of God. He beamed with pride watching his five year old son preaching the Gospel. As a deacon, he convinced our pastor to allow his eight year old son to study in the Pastor's Class with the elders of the church. He guided me through the Word of God. I never departed from the path he set me on. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it".Proverbs 22:6. He was successful. So was I. He was a tremendous Father. He was a Father that any Son would truly desire to claim. This is my conundrum. How could an intern tell me that if his father was me in a room for stroke patients he would that he would give his father the Metformin that he was offering me. It was Saturday morning, December 23, 2023, why would you do that to a father? Already made a hemiplegic, paralyzed on the left side of my body after an assault by a nurse and two technicians early in my stay, the local hospital seemed more concerned with me being more diabetic than a stroke survivor.
The love of a great father is tremendous and is worthy of praise and admiration from a son. Which is why Asian intern that was caring for me at a local hospital on December 23, 2023 would love his father in the way that he served me. Why did you try to force Metformin on me? So much so that you threw me out the hospital because I refused. Metformin is a first-line medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, often in combination with diet and exercise. Metformin is a first-line medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, often in combination with diet and exercise. Belonging to a class of drugs called biguanides, it works by helping the body use insulin more effectively to control blood sugar levels according to AI. The American Diabetes Association recommends metformin to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes. What the medical professionals don't tell you is that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) issued safety warnings for Metformin. In 2020 and 2021, the FDA issued warnings and oversaw voluntary recalls of certain batches of extended-release (ER) metformin due to contamination with N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). The intern and the hospital offered no alternatives, of which there are at least eight. I advised this but he responded, "Come on, many drugs have black labels, We use them and people are okay." No he refused to let it go. I knew from my research that I did not want nor wanted to take it. But he persisted, "If you were my father, I would recommend that you take it." Not persuasive enough. I wasn't convinced. It seemed they were more determined to make me and treat me as a diabetic than deal with my stroke and the hemiplagic that they created. Unsuccessful in persuasion, the intern slowly walked out of the room and the nurses returned. One to clean out the beds in the room. The other to throw me out of the hospital. The local hospital has me listed as a 'walk out' in their modern records. I find that amusing since I can't walk. My wife trudged up to local hospital to pick-up her husband escorted by a nurse, they didn't want to wait for other hospital personnel on a Saturday morning. Surely, the deed was done. The hospital got rid of their burden. This summer, I was forced to return to the said hospital and I overheard saying to a patient, "You must take Metformin!" I had two thoughts. One, "I wonder how much Nostrum Laboratories is making off this hospital?" The second is "Why would the intern treat his father this way?"
I believe that this is not merely a church observance but an individual one. When you would, do this in remembrance. A sacrament for the individual observed by the church. Our grace received is for those that have exchanged their lives for His Faith. Unfortunately, many people believe that you can observe the Last Supper only after sitting in a pew, listening to a long sermon and a choir sing two fast and one slow songs. However, I have never felt the power of the Holy Spirit in my independent love of God. While my wife troupes off to the church on Sunday and listen to people, including pastors, telling her that they will pray for her and husband. Imagine if people of Faith seriously pursued the sick and shut-in as they do the tither. Imagine if people of Faith visited the sick and shut-in to pray and share the observation of communion. Laying on of hands in utterance of Faith for divine healing and comfort of the Holy Spirit. The number of testamonies given to the congregations weekly. Bible .org reports that 80% of Christians do not evangelize. Imagine training Christians to evangelize by first giving the responsibility of serving the sick and shut-in. Keeping the sheep in the fold. How dramatic the impact of reach to unserved populations. They already acknowledge that they are Christians. Imagine how great your reach becomes touching the lives of people that you know.
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