Sacrifice
Today is like any other day. We begin and end the same way. We take for granted what we have, we yearn for the things we don't have and we think we always need what someone else has. Did it ever occur to you that you are lucky? That you have everything when others have nothing?
It's so easy to think about what we "need" or what we "must have" and so much more easier to forget that we are fortunate with everything we do have. Our society has programmed the way we think and has made us have these false implications that we need all of these materialistic things. What happened to the days where food was the most important part of your needs and wants? Simplicity used to be so easy and we have made things so much more complicated than what they need to really be.
We know that there are starving children all over the world. We know that there are less fortunate people than ourselves. We are educated in the sense where there are children that go to school hungry in our schools locally. We know these things but we do nothing about them ourselves. We still complain about what we don't have and what everyone else seems to have. Our comparison to each other is unreal. When does everyone else's sacrifices start being our own? When do you start to sacrifice your "wants" and "needs" and be happy settling with what you have.
Growing up our parents told us that we should be happy with our plate full of food because there are children in other countries that would die to have what we have. Are you telling your children the same things? I don't just mean this theoretically. How come we are always so unhappy with what we have instead of being so grateful that we don't need to sacrifice?
It's easy to forget, it's simple to get caught up with society's wants and needs to neglect what is really at stake.
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
It's so easy to think about what we "need" or what we "must have" and so much more easier to forget that we are fortunate with everything we do have. Our society has programmed the way we think and has made us have these false implications that we need all of these materialistic things. What happened to the days where food was the most important part of your needs and wants? Simplicity used to be so easy and we have made things so much more complicated than what they need to really be.
We know that there are starving children all over the world. We know that there are less fortunate people than ourselves. We are educated in the sense where there are children that go to school hungry in our schools locally. We know these things but we do nothing about them ourselves. We still complain about what we don't have and what everyone else seems to have. Our comparison to each other is unreal. When does everyone else's sacrifices start being our own? When do you start to sacrifice your "wants" and "needs" and be happy settling with what you have.
Growing up our parents told us that we should be happy with our plate full of food because there are children in other countries that would die to have what we have. Are you telling your children the same things? I don't just mean this theoretically. How come we are always so unhappy with what we have instead of being so grateful that we don't need to sacrifice?
It's easy to forget, it's simple to get caught up with society's wants and needs to neglect what is really at stake.
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
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