Addiction

We all have addictions, whether these are socially acceptable is the only way we rate such addictions. there are addictions to food, to alcohol, to sex, to drugs, and to other people, but the most misunderstood addiction I find plaguing our society is this addiction to the contemporary. The addiction to have, to experience, to be a part of whatever is new and popular. Few support the traditional any longer. The world is in need of a new thing. The addiction to the contemporary drives our world to an end. the examples are too numerous to explain, but a few would be the fall of the major department stores and the minor ones in lieu of pop shops or the ever expanding Wal-Mart domination of the needs with wants store or all-in-one store. the church also sees the traditional/sacred sacrificed for the contemporary/worldly...it is true that the church needs to be relevant, but at what cost. do we stand by the door to invite people in, or have we drifted out so far that we can no longer find our own way back? what a dilemma now faces the family as parents do not stay consistent with their beliefs, but blow about in the wind with the latest thing to come down the line. What is in the right hand looks better, so we will go with that for today. Where is the integrity we once set out to uphold? perhaps america needs change, but if you spend all that time changing, do you know who you are by the time you are finished, or is who you are what you most want to change? doesn't matter the contemporary wave will be back shortly and you will feel the need to change once more.

I wish to return to and to remain who and what I am supposed to be. No fusion with the contemporary. No t-shirt and blue jean life...this world needs a constant, let it be me. I wish the world would return to having value, but that would become a contemporary movement of its own that would fade as quickly as skinny jeans, Hannah Montana, flares, and the American family. Just another addiction to distract from the purpose and meaning of life--to honor God.