Chris's Musings

I finally got a chance to, on a lazy Saturday afternoon last weekend, watch Food, Inc.   If you don't know what this movie is, it's a documentary that this investigative journalist did on on the food industry that supplies the vast majority of our supermarket and fast food products to the shelves that we purchase everyday.  Chances are, if you have seen it, it disturbed you.  It disturbed me.... from thoughts of "well, that's not completely destructive but it's unjust and I'm certain it's unethical" to "that is downright disgusting" (seeing the cattle feedlots and the chicken coop will do that!) Now, I'm a conservative.   What that means is, I don't feel that the government should be telling us what we should and should not eat.  I'm very opposed to their infringement in the personal everyday decisions of citizens.  And I totally get that we as citizens need to exercise personal responsibility when making decisions on the food w...

I am re-reading through Luke in my quiet times right now, partly because my small group is tracking through it in our group discussions and it's been really fascinating.  The discussions we've had have motivated me to dig more into the Word and meditate on it. So - I ran across the parable of the shrewd manager yesterday, and when I was noodling on it thought about what Andy has been talking about in church the past two Sundays.  He's been talking about how feeble our American prayers have become, and how we generally pray for things that don't really require God's intervention (like, help me have a safe trip), for God to bless us, and then for a few random sick people.  The sarcasm he threw out about our prayers as Americans for God to "bless us" stuck with me, because he's absolutely right that if anyone from any other part of the world heard us pray THAT, they'd probably laugh at us because compared to everyone else we are already SO blessed i...