February 21, 2007

30 Days of Nothing

Posted by Dean Kuest @ 1:49 pm

Someone passed along this blog to us this week. It captures the heart of a family who is truly trying to understand how Affluenza has gotten ahold of them and wrestling with what they can do about it. I’d encourage you to read it and consider what you can do as well. Stories like this inspire me.

One Response to “30 Days of Nothing”

  1. Ron B Says:
    February 24th, 2007 at 7:35 am

    Greetings,

    What a powerful subject matter, so close to the heart. As we live in our capsulated ways life does go on. I really have a longing to do something close to home as I see so many homeless in our streets today. I am aware our Lord, Jesus, stated that we will always have the poor among us and the poor at spirit is considered good.

    I often look to our society as being so backward when an athlete makes millions, a schoolteacher, no where close, some are barely making ends meet. The least to be expected from a country founded on the principles of God and Christian ethics and values where, now, the word not of God only, but God itself, is removed from a public eye and ear. How then does it reach the heart, for how does one know if one does not hear?

    I know there is no way to eradicate the pain and suffering of all, but cannot each do a part in an effort towards this cause? It seems like this blog is just about that.

    Our country is fat, sassy and motivated by the pursuit of the almighty dollar and absolute power. Please, don’t get me wrong, I am blessed to live among the limited freedoms we have, as other countries have it much worse, but out there one can see on the surface the repression of such rights and freedoms. We live covered in an untruth of righteousness, both in the physical form and in the spirit blinded by self.

    How can a country with all the Starbucks, wireless gadgets, computer technologies, and absolute waste have so many that live in shear poverty?

    I proclaim, for myself, the religion I am, (people ask me all the time), as James 1:27. Pure and undefiled religion in the eyes of God, helping the widows, the orphans and keeping oneself unspotted from the world. I ask how can one be unspotted from a world as we walk through life motivated by self, focused on profit, and looking for what others can do for us rather than what we can do for others?

    May God grant us all the heart of a humble servant, striving one by one, to not only better society, but in the long run, building for what is real in the kingdom to come.

    Jesus asked Peter 3 times, and each time he answered, “Lord you know I love you,” Jesus then, 3 times replied, “Feed My sheep.” The word says man does not live by bread alone but buy every word that comes from God. It is our duty as ordained by the word of God, to minister to the repressed in spirit and to nourish them both with physical and spiritual forms of food. Jesus said to consume Him daily. What a nourishing feast to be had by all.

    God, please, show us the way.

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