We are starting a new sermon series this Sunday based on a book written by a United Methodist pastor called "Enough". Long story short it is about the economic crisis we find ourselves in, how we got here, what the Bible has to say about it, and how we are called to live differently.
In pondering these things I have thought about just how our convenience programmed, consumption oriented minds, have gotten us where we are. The industrial revolution ushered in a new age and certainly had some positive effects, but the more I look at technology and convenience the more I question our connection to anything of value.
Consider just a few points:
Because food is so easy to get, readily available, heat it up from its prepackaged container are we overconsuming? Is this part of the reason we are the fattest country in the world? Think about it. If we grow our own food, clean or kill our own food, prepare our own food, don't we relish it all the more? Do we eat as much? waste as much?
If we make our own clothes are we so quick to throw them out if there is a stubborn stain? When it is not easy or convenient to buy another shirt to we just make it work? Now we toss it right away, go out and buy another, and another, and another. If we make it with our hands doesn't it hold more value?
The average person has so much stuff they don't even know what they have.
We are majorly connected but don't really communicate.
I don't know. These are just some things that I have been thinking about that I believe are part of the more basic reasons we are where we are, before the nose dive of the stock market or subprime mortgages, before the freeze of credit and sky rocketing unemployment.
I pray that we will all take the time to really learn something from this and live differently as a result.
1 comment:
AMEN!
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