Putting out the Trash
We have finally lost our weekly trash/rubbish collections. In its wisdom, and in a never-ending quest to reduce costs, Herefordshire …
We have finally lost our weekly trash/rubbish collections. In its wisdom, and in a never-ending quest to reduce costs, Herefordshire …
When I was younger I worked for a supermarket as a cashier. This was in the days when people still …
A few days ago I looked out in the garden to see three pigeons and two doves sunning themselves in …
There are so many reflections I could make on the night. Comparing my own desire for the eternal with the crowds desire for the temporary and finding myself lacking, wishing the church was as desperate to spread the gospel as these customers were to get their hands on the game. Sadly shaking my head as the memory of the night encapsulates all that I think is wrong with todays consumaristic society. The must have attitude where people are so desperate for the latest game, fashion, phone that they must be one of the first too own it, the sad fact that this will all be repeated on perhaps an even bigger scale next year when the next Call of Duty comes out.
My life story is littered with examples like this, where I thought I knew best. Rather than learning this lesson, I seem to be stuck repeating the same mistakes, but sadly on a bigger scale each time.
Having recognised this I have a choice. Do I wallow in self pity, wishing I could change that which is already set in stone? Or do I use it to motivate myself to not waste anything else and to make the most of every opportunity I get to advance God’s Kingdom. The trouble is that I will invariably waste as I attempt not too.