My sacrifice usually involves sins against God.
Are we willing to forgive and offer our hand of friendship to our enemies and those who sin against us? Are we sensitive to the needs of others around us, or do we close our eyes and ears to their cries of plea? Are we willing to go down to the level of the downtrodden to help them? Are we willing to patiently listen to those in distress? Are we willing and brave enough to speak out against injustice wherever it occurs? My faith in God is deep and wide, but that doesn't prevent me from failing Him. No doubt I fail him daily (hourly?!). When I do, I almost always recognize it immediately or even before the offense takes place. Yet, being the petulant child I am, there are days I can't help but roll around on the floor in a screaming fit. I might even shout You made me like this! as a reminder to Him that it really isn't all my fault, as I try to relieve my guilt afterwards for such ridiculous behavior.. Great stress reliever, but ultimately I know He wonders where He went wrong with me. I had such potential.
This blog is a great place for me to show off my douchbaggery mad skilz. And I have on countless occasions. I am painfully aware, people. But, the interesting thing is that where the left may think I earned a FAIL!, I believe I scored a WIN! My failing doesn't come from calling out the asshat behavior of our elected kings, or pitching a fit in righteous anger (remember, Jesus stormed through the temple and expelled those committing abuse.) it comes from not researching the story more, it comes from not expanding on my ideas from the day's news, it comes from not paying attention or failing to get my point across clearly. It comes from failing to do what I have been asked to do, which is get it right.
This morning I was asked, in a joking manner, if I was going to give up blogging for Lent. Um, no. Times like these call for diligence, and while my blogging every day, five days a week, is already a sacrifice, it's not the sacrifice.
Speaking of my sacrifice, on to one of the stories that caught my eye this morning:
Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away.
Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases.
The article goes on to say that each company will still work towards greenhouse-gas emissions, but it's hardly believable. To take themselves out of the lobbying group is significant and telling. They be giving Barry and Crew the birdy-bird. It's comes down to either doing it the government's way or possibly sacrificing profits while keeping their companies viable, I.E. keeping customers, during this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. (name that book!) These companies are in business to make money. Period. The end. Once profits get compromised because their base abandons them based on stupid policies that are based on stupid politics, they are O-U-T.
We're not naive though, are we? These companies joined looking to make an easy killing, then bailed when their greed got the best of them. Once the angry mob exposed climategate for the money-stealing scheme it is, and these companies as complicit in the proposed heist, they ditched in order to remake their images and keep their consumers.
The theater and greed of politics never ceases to astound me.
May all who partake in the holy Lenten season be blessed on your journey.
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2 comments:
I'd be happy to sacrifice my government for a few weeks. They can all go home and do nothing. . . maybe think about what they've done. ;-)
andrew: i like that idea. to the corner with them!
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