Cultural Awakening

I just read an excellent novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, and have experienced a cultural awakening. Life for us Americans is so much easier than what could be almost the rest of the world. People in other countries don't think like us, they don't live like us and don't see life as we do.

We are so concerned about the things that don't matter in this life, designer clothes, bigger paychecks, cooler cars, fancier houses, elite neighborhoods and the most up to date electronic devices. Outside our country life means being with our loved ones, staying alive another day, eating to survive not for pleasure, and a house with two rooms makes a home.

We sit and watch our television shows, play our computer games or video games, play the lottery and throw away our faith for the next best thing. What do we leave behind? Property to be taxed, debt, heartaches from unresolved relationships, and regrets.

Yeah, there are some messed up things out there in this world but we live in a broken world (Pastor Jonathon)it's going to be there. No one has made it to heaven because they were an American and I can guarantee you that no one will. I love my country, I served my country and I would serve it again, but I want to understand the rest of the world by seeing it through their eyes.

Sometimes Life = Pain

This week begins with a feeling of utter hopelessness. FYI, I am not, have not been, will not be perfect. My life has seen it's fair share of sins done in the name of selfishness, repentance has been my saving grace. However, not all will accept the fact that I have turned from these sins and changed my path to one that does not repeat them. To some I remain a flawed and a stupid individual who has done nothing but ruined their lives. Thank God for His forgiveness and unconditional love, without Him I would have no hope. This is not to say that I don't have failures in the present, but don't we all because of our humanness?

I am enclosing my church's website because it is there that I am reminded over and over again that God loves me with an unconditional, eternal love and He will not abandon me. http://www.gracecma.org/

'Profoundness'

Is it considered plagiarism if I take, word for word, my own writings from my other blog and put it on here? I think not!


‘Profoundness’ is in the mind of the reader. Do not leave it up to me to decide what is profound to you as I have not left it up to you to determine what is profound to me. So many things are happening around us today that I seem to think that the world is deteriorating around us or I have grown more aware of the cruelty of life as one ages. Perverseness and ugliness has existed since the beginning of time and each generation comments on the depravity of humankind, so why should it be different now? As December 2009 joins the ranks of history January 2010 opens up before us to make a new beginning to a new year and the changes in our lives needed to make it a better year.