Sunday, June 7, 2020
Day 86 (morning musings in the evening)
I’m late posting today because I don’t feel so great. I don’t really want to go outside, which is really not normal for me.
So my picture today is of a tree in my yard that I took last week and painted for as a challenge for a watercolor group. The name of the challenge was Tree with a Twist.
I’m praying for my country lately, and I think to myself, “Why haven’t I done been diligently praying for it before– I keep up with politics plenty?” Yet I some how think these problems are ones I have some important contribute to by doing my part to stay informed and be a voice and share my thoughts, and…. But I really just use all of it as a distraction from the things right in front of me, the people right in front of me, needing me, needing my attention.
There are a lot of problems in the world and I want to react when those problems are in front of me like the Good Samaritan. I imagine if the Good Samaritan story was produced as a short film today and it was modernize; the story might be very similar but the whole thing would end up on Social Media. And there would be this huge viral outrage at the hypocritical self righteous leaders. The entire film would be people typing into there computers, tablets, and phones. The leads in the film would be the common people sharing the story, the video, and calling for action against these horrible religious leaders. The Good Samaritan wouldn’t even have a name. Eventually the leaders loose there positions and the glorious triumphal music plays only to pan out from the close up view of all the people showing how they were completely missing the physical needs of the people around them that they were capable of helping.
I imagine I could be the lead in the film.
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