if only complaining could fuel a vehicle
I just read a headline on cnn.com that said “Gas Prices Shoot Up 3 cents!” It got me thinking...I would like to take this opportunity to say that Americans complain too much. Forgive me for my rant, but wasn’t it you, the complainer that bought that enormous vehicle in the first place? Didn’t I see you bragging about how BIG it was compared to your neighbors puny SUV?
May I ask why you drive to “go workout?” Then you drive to your weight loss program. Perhaps you may drive to your doctor and act surprised when he tells you that you are unhealthy and that you should exercise more, so you quickly reach for your Gold’s Gym membership attached to your keychain. That is when you notice attached to your keychain is an enormous key that belongs to your enormous gas guzzling vehicle that explains your whole dilemma in the first place.
Here is an idea. Walk! You get your exercise and save money! Take public transportation; you may meet someone worthy of talking to or learn a new language. If all else fails, ride a bicycle, look what happened to the Wright brothers...
It would be idealistic to think that everyone has the luxury of walking. So this week as you are driving to work, or school, or to go work out- think about how blessed you are in the first place. Then thank God for the miracle of a vehicle and the comfort of driving. If this doesn’t satisfy your complacency then remember the other 90% of the world who doesn’t even have enough money to buy a gallon of gas, let alone a car. Blessings.
posted by jeremy | 2:17 PM
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But walking hurts my feet! Maybe if Starbucks wasn't so expensive I could buy some walking shoes!
"10,000 persons died today because of inadequate food. One billion people are mentally retarded or physically deformed because of a poor diet. The problem, we know, is that the world's resources are not evenly distributed. North Americans live on an affluent island amid a starving humanity." _Ronald Sider
And we never look out into the sea of suffering because we are afraid we will see something that will move us to action. But we know that complacency is easier than change and so we continue our lives, day by day, growing closer to a death that remembers a wasted life. God forgive us.
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