I clicked on a link to my old high school/college blog yesterday and found it missing. Five years worth of writing...gone. Of course I didn't have any of this saved anywhere...the only place it existed is the geocities server...because I'm just that responsible. So I freaked out a little bit and did some investigating (more than I really had time for) and eventually ended up in a dark and dusty HTML index loaded with the rough versions of all my entries, and an announcement in teeny, tiny little letters that read, "All Geocities websites will be disabled and deleted as of October 26, 2009. Your web site will no longer be accessible after this date." ??? Thanks for the MEMO! Anyhow, I copied and pasted it in 8 point font to 144 pages of word document. Dodge impending disaster...check.
All that to say...that while copying and pasting all those entries, I got a little caught up in reading more than a few of them. And discovered that, if I were to categorize my entries, the largest topic would be "Materialism: in my life and otherwise". I've written on it more than I realized. And think about it exponentially more than I write about it. It's a recurring theme in my life...wondering how Jesus feels about my finances and my use of them.
I recently returned from a trip to Swaziland, where 69% of the rural population lives below the poverty line of E57 (Emalangeni - the national currency) a month. That translates to $7.12. A month.
Needless to say...I could write a little more on the topic of the epidemic of materialism following that trip.
So I guess what I'm wondering now...is that if this is a constant issue on my mind...something the Lord keeps laying on my heart...over and over and over again...what am I supposed to do about it?
Maybe I'm missing the ball...
