Fables and Sorted Thoughts
One of Aesop's famous fables was about reeds and an oak tree that grew along the same river. The reeds were small, inconsequential. The oak was tall and lovely. In short, when a violent storm came the oak cracked, splintered, and fell, ending it's glorious life. The reeds just swished on like they always had, unharmed.
And the moral is..."That's life..be flexible" OR is it "that's life...go with the flow" OR "that's life; the safest way to live is to live like everyone else. Be swept along by mainstream society." Maybe I missed the whole point, because THAT would be a stupid moral.
Now that I am done with college this is real life, right? It's starting to seem that my idealistic beliefs that I could save the world were just privileged notions that don't do you any good when you need to make the money to pay the bills to make your livelihood that enables you to make a difference. A difference? Ultimately a swishing reed or a falling oak?
The sermon at church today was about planting seeds that I (I was going to say you but that would make it seem like I was not the one the sermon was being preached to) may not see grow, because I am not the Creator, the Sovereign. And yet I am responsible to remain faithful. Faithful, not effective. GEN 300 anyone? It's those little lifestyle changes that I made as a convinced and excited student that I need to hold fast as ideals and reality look one another in the face.
I need to remember that I am little, so that I might enter the Kingdom and live in it now. That part wasn't preached. This is just my sorted thoughts.
And the moral is..."That's life..be flexible" OR is it "that's life...go with the flow" OR "that's life; the safest way to live is to live like everyone else. Be swept along by mainstream society." Maybe I missed the whole point, because THAT would be a stupid moral.
Now that I am done with college this is real life, right? It's starting to seem that my idealistic beliefs that I could save the world were just privileged notions that don't do you any good when you need to make the money to pay the bills to make your livelihood that enables you to make a difference. A difference? Ultimately a swishing reed or a falling oak?
The sermon at church today was about planting seeds that I (I was going to say you but that would make it seem like I was not the one the sermon was being preached to) may not see grow, because I am not the Creator, the Sovereign. And yet I am responsible to remain faithful. Faithful, not effective. GEN 300 anyone? It's those little lifestyle changes that I made as a convinced and excited student that I need to hold fast as ideals and reality look one another in the face.
I need to remember that I am little, so that I might enter the Kingdom and live in it now. That part wasn't preached. This is just my sorted thoughts.