This is a personal post, this just represents my personal opinion of the organizations that will be mentioned here. For anyone wondering why this post is on a page dedicated to Blumenort – here is an excerpt from the history of this community – the people(s) residing in RRFN (Roseau River Anishinaabe First Nation) were living in this area before moving to their current location.

In my life I’ve noticed that there are mostly two types of people – those who tirelessly volunteer their time or perhaps get paid and push themselves really hard to provide a service that improves quality of life and taking care of people – and those those sit on the sidelines and reap the benefit of those services.

Everyone can be a bit of both but usually its the mindset; I’ve had people complain that something wasn’t done the right way or could have been, should have been – but you never see those people taking the bull by the horns and implement change.

But I wanted to talk about an organization that is really great, so this is a shout out to the people at Manitoba First Nations Police Service (MFNPS).

Police and medical services are really hard jobs, especially on front lines – first off, there is a lot of racism directed toward First Nations people – especially in communities such as Steinbach – and that quite frankly is very offensive.

A common misconception is that First Nations people have it “easy”, anybody who has spent time on a reservation can tell you that isn’t the case. Its also very hard to be a product of a broken family, adopted, or part of the sixties scoop and come out the other side a well adjusted human being.

It takes a very strong person to break the shackles of trauma and prejudice and become a health care professional or a member of the police service, many people never make it that far, and if and when you do make it – you will mostly see and deal with people at their worst.

I have been able to work with doctors, nurses and other health care professionals and be an enabler in regards to technology, physical help, and am glad to work with them in anyway that makes their lives easier. I’ve also had the privilege to provide a small amount of assistance to constables as well when the situation arises.

The truth is that all of this is so far above my station – its hard for me to believe. It’s very humbling just to be a part of it.. I remember once I went for a job interview and was told that I couldn’t do this type of position – I wasn’t capable enough and it wouldn’t work (at a different organization) – now I do everything that job I applied for entailed; plus way, way more, like 20-30 times more at least (no joke).

Is that because Jason is so great? No, not all – that person was right… but it’s not about what Jason can do, it’s about what God can accomplish when we put our faith and trust in him – and God can accomplish anything – he uses the weak to humble the strong – so I want to be weak – I want him to use me. The best part of my life is helping other people with theirs, its kind of hard to understand since that sounds so counter-intuitive. People want to improve their lives so they try so hard focusing on themselves, but Jesus had the best life of any human being and he spend little to no time thinking of himself.

One of the reasons I have this blog is to write out my feelings, I want to develop a heart for people – if you heard the desperation in the voice(s) of the First Nations people, and hear someone’s life falling apart, that is nothing to joke about. I don’t find any joy in someone else’s pain. I don’t want to become immune to the pain of others. Please pray for the MFNPS and those organizations that help others.

Jason