I was helping my dad stake and tie up the corn today and thinking about someone's status update on FB that I saw. She had posted, "
Religion, property, and government.. Domination of man's mind, needs, and conduct. Just a thought!" and had then proceeded to badmouth all of the three things and how she (and her friends) wished they could live without any regulations. I'm giving her some grace because she's only 19, but seriously?!
It's like my family's garden... It would be wonderful if we could just throw some seeds out there and they would grow perfectly happy and healthy without any intervention from us. But they don't. We have to take the time to plant them, cover them, water them, weed them, ensure they're protected from crazy winds (stakes and twine!), and give them time, and then we able to harvest them. We don't dominate the land, we guide and support it. If we didn't, the weeds would overtake the few seeds that were able to take root on top of the soil and the wind would blow over most of the crops that were actually growing and producing fruit. And while I admit that I think that some of the flowers that grow on the weeds are pretty and I actually wish we could leave them be, if we did that our whole vegetable garden would become a very pretty but very worthless flowerweed garden.
I'll be the first to say that there are some things wrong with today's religion, property, and government situation but that's because we live in a fallen world. Yes there are bad people in high places but there are a lot more good people in lower places and in the grand scheme of things, the multitudes can overpower. It takes getting up and doing something about the situation but it surely beats sitting around (blabbing your FB jaws) waiting for everything to get worse. And feel free to call me on this- if I complain about something, ask me what I've done to change it; if I haven't done anything about it, I'll shut my mouth and put on a smile. Just be forewarned that I will probably call you on it, too ;)
