Anyways… Here is link to something that should embarrass the human race. It almost makes me cry to hear the quotes from this little kid.
Dad dumps preschooler in box for unwanted newborns
Anna Jarvis, the leader of the early 20th century movement to make Mother’s
Day a national holiday, later fought against the holiday. She felt the day
had become over-commercialized. In fact, she was so frustrated that most
people sent greeting cards on the holiday that she once called the cards,
“a poor excuse for the letter you are too lazy to write.” Jarvis and her
sister spent their family inheritance fighting against the holiday. They
both died in poverty.
The Mother of Mother’s Day
I was reading my newest issue of Relevant Magazine, and in particular was reading the cover story article, “Laying It Down: Learning to Live with Less in a Culture of Excess.”
When we consider this idea of loving our neighbor as ourselves, and we try to reconcile that with the American dream, we hit a wall. Because right now the average American is consuming the same amount as more than 500 Africans. When you think, “How do I love my neighbor as myself?” it becomes just impossible to do that within the worldview of the American dream.
But I think what’s exciting is that Jesus has another dream, and Jesus is offering us another dream. Where it’s not even just this ascetic simplicity—give up everything and be poor—but it’s this idea that God created an economy of enough. God didn’t create a world of scarcity. But we’ve created poverty and need by not living out this command to love our neighbor as ourself.
