Daily allowance of truthful foolishness

How does one introduce themselves humbly. It was in 1987 that I think I first began to understand that I was not very humble, which was at the same time I began helping low income, older widows living in urban neighborhoods in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At first I became more arrogant thinking I had come to save the day. Then I began to realize that my perceptions of older, poor widows was backwards. Greatness was with them. They had far more that I needed to gain than I could possibly ever offer. 38 years later I am still in the company of greatness, but I am nothing like I was when I started a faith led non-profit with widows. The last 20 of those years have been particularly tragic. In 2005 our 17 year old son was injured in a fall which left him to live with the effects of a traumatic brain injury and quadriplegia. 2 months after his accident a 200 year old oak tree fell on our house leaving us without a home for a year. 6 months after our son's accident our almost 20 year old daughter was killed in a car accident. 10 years after that our son passed away from causes related to his original spinal cord injuries. In 2016 my wife was diagnosed with stage 3 liver disease, a form that is hereditary, mothers pass to daughters. 10 years after we lost our son my wife passed away on June 5, 2025. Yet, so many of the widows I have served with have experienced similar loss and more. They are black, though, I am white. I could not even write what I am writing here if I did not have them in my life. It is for them that I keep going, because they have modeled faith in Jesus more than I know that I ever will even though to most of the world they have no real value, especially in the eyes of the church, especially with its leadership. That lack of regard has led to almost total neglect. Not just for the scriptural mandates that span the entirety of the Bible for insuring their care, but for their value and the  contributions we are all so desperately in need of but don't even realize it. Their invisibility and subsequent neglect is what has now brought much of the church to a place that bears very little resemblance to Jesus, who they profess to believe in and serve. Like the widow, which means desolate in the Old Testament and bereft in the New Testament, their house has been left unto them desolate. Is it provable? Yes, it is provable, but for many that proof will only be seen as foolishness. If it is all just foolishness, though, then why did evangelical Christians elect a convicted felon, guilty of sexual assault, 2 times divorced, an adulterer, twice impeached and many other crimes that he was never tried for because evangelicals re-elected him to a second term as President? Here's to foolishness.