Post by packerconvert on Oct 14, 2009 22:33:16 GMT -5
Recent comments on this board prompted my memory to recall a sermon I once listened to regarding helping our fellow neighbor and living life in general.
Most Americans are giving. There is no debate about this fact.
How this nation ails though is how we covet our wealth, yet put on the "aura of giving."
How many Americans...how many of us on this board take a day or days to help a special needs project in the community and then return to our comfortable lifestyles?
The type of people described above are called vertical people. They live upstairs in their "wealthy" homes and on occasion, will travel downstairs to help the poor and down only to return back up stairs to their "lap of luxury."
How much better would the lives of all Americans be if we lived our lives on a horizontal premise. Living and maintaing a life to address our needs and anything in excess of those needs are given freely to help those in need daily. Not when we choose to.
I do have issues with a government telling me that I will purchase a product or service or be fined...but that is the cost of living in a vertical society so that the less fortuanate may have isn't it?
Most Americans are giving. There is no debate about this fact.
How this nation ails though is how we covet our wealth, yet put on the "aura of giving."
How many Americans...how many of us on this board take a day or days to help a special needs project in the community and then return to our comfortable lifestyles?
The type of people described above are called vertical people. They live upstairs in their "wealthy" homes and on occasion, will travel downstairs to help the poor and down only to return back up stairs to their "lap of luxury."
How much better would the lives of all Americans be if we lived our lives on a horizontal premise. Living and maintaing a life to address our needs and anything in excess of those needs are given freely to help those in need daily. Not when we choose to.
I do have issues with a government telling me that I will purchase a product or service or be fined...but that is the cost of living in a vertical society so that the less fortuanate may have isn't it?