“Snap” Sunday Sermon - The Devil and the Angel

May 4th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Words of Wisdom in a Snap-

I have individual values and group values. And often, my individual values win.

I struggle with the trade-offs every day.

 

 

 

 

It goes something like this:

 

 

Angel Lisa- Let’s go to the Local Farm and buy some local eggs and milk, honey. Maybe the chickens will be out in their pen, playing. I’ll get our cloth grocery bags, you gather up the recycling.

 

 

 

 

Devil Lisa- Where’s this week’s Wal-mart Ad? They have sneakers for $2.99. And I need to get some Round-Up. And I want some of those mangoes from Brazil, 2 for a dollar.

 

 

 

Meanwhile, a third of the world’s people live on less than $2 a day, with 1.2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.

I’m just starting to comprehend the order of magnitude those little decisions I make in my life impact the factory worker in China, struggling to support his family while working in an illegally run sweatshop, or my own grandchildren, who may not have drinking water because I had to “kill the roots, guaranteed” of every weed in my yard.

It’s a small world, after all.

And whichever hat I’m wearing - the angel’s, the devil’s, or the good or bad witches’ - I need to keep that in mind.

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  1. Comment by Carol on 5 May 2008:

    I know just how you feel — I have now frozen all but two credit cards and next week will make a homemade weed killer. The odd thing to me is that my family and I have been “green” since 1959 and all of a sudden evertone is worried — this is a long time coming and will take twice as long to fix. We have been charged by the Lord to be “good stewards of the land (I think this applies to air and water also) and look at we have done and allowed to be done to us.

  2. Comment by Trackbacks on 18 November 2008:

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