Awakening from our slumber

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding someone to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

All around us are opportunities to make a difference. Life constantly sends forth a barrage of wake-up calls~the hungry child, the neighbor with cancer, the polluted air, the dying Fraser firs, even the litter on our streets and sidewalks.

Why then are so many of us reluctant to really get involved? Do we spend so much time chasing the almighty dollar that we can’t find the time? Are our senses dulled from the overstimulation of television and the Internet? Or have we just gone to sleep? Perhaps one of the following stances sounds familiar.

“The small amount I’m able to do won’t really make much of a difference.”

“All of our problems seem so huge and complicated. I’d better just let the experts deal with them.”

“If the (choose one—liberals, conservatives, corporations, unions, ecologists, foresters, etc.) would just disappear everything would be OK.” (more…)

Saturday, March 4th, 2000