A friend pointed out the inevitable gray areas between the depraved Monsanto and my organic breakfast.
What do we make of the fact that so many of our corporations--even those evil ones doing things like surreptitiously supporting violence, or exploiting child laborers--are owned by their employees, not by monstrously wealthy individuals? In the current climate of ratings-grabbing political dramas, often concocted for no other reason than to get non-news on the airwaves, we are bombarded with eloquent, skewed, sweeping statements telling us that corporations are of Satan, or of God; that taxes on the wealthy help the poor, or hurt the poor; that organized labor works, or doesn't. It's an us-and-them world, we're told, the gaps growing between the classes, the middle class disappearing entirely. We're divided into haves and have-nots, educated and uneducated, Republican and Democrat, rural and urban, 99% and 1%. Especially in an election year, it's tough to figure out what to accept. Spin is everything.
I will remain a bleeding heart liberal with socialist leanings--this whoopie cat* can't change her bobtail. But I feel uneasy about our American politics, especially after reading of the fictional Little Bee, whose village had to be destroyed in order to get at the oil underneath--and the oil underneath had to be extracted to power vehicles like the four I insure.
Jesus made a difference in his world, a world as topsy-turvy as ours. Can we follow him? How? What does grace look like today, right now?
Us and them? It's really just us. Now what?
*For those of you not from southern Illinois, a whoopie cat is a wildcat. Some people claim a whoopie cat is a cougar, or puma--a mountain lion--but most of us think a whoopie cat is just a bobcat.
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This is an excellent question. How can we, when it seems like everyone and everything can be linked to some sort of moral/ethical inadequacy, claim to be followers of Christ. So many times I am envious of early Christians because I delude myself into thinking about how much easier it must have been for them to live Godly lives. But, then, I remember that they, too, had struggles. I can't imagine what it might look like to live a purely ethical life, but I assume it will mean much more self-sustenance than many people are willing to maintain. I am hoping to give a whirl at a self-sustaining farming venture in a couple of years, but I assume I will shocked at the amount of work, toil, and heartache this will entail. It's all about the work, isn't it?
Last night Friday we made the Stations of the Cross. It goes from the first station whe Pilate sentenced Jesus to death to when he died on the cross was taken down and placed in the tomb.
We must not lose heart for our dear country. There are many good people still praying for America. Hoping someday to get back to the Faith of Our Fathers.
America was once a land that loved God, America and faith in their families.
Last night Friday we made the Stations of the Cross. It goes from the first station whe Pilate sentenced Jesus to death to when he died on the cross was taken down and placed in the tomb.
We must not lose heart for our dear country. There are many good people still praying for America. Hoping someday to get back to the Faith of Our Fathers.
America was once a land that loved God, America and faith in their families.
Last night Friday we made the Stations of the Cross. It goes from the first station whe Pilate sentenced Jesus to death to when he died on the cross was taken down and placed in the tomb.
We must not lose heart for our dear country. There are many good people still praying for America. Hoping someday to get back to the Faith of Our Fathers.
America was once a land that loved God, America and faith in their families.
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