Today's Journal

BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE

This phrase has come to mean something completely different than when I was younger and not living as closely to the Jesus-way as I now do. Back then it meant to bring your bottle of V-8 Juice when going out to party.

There is another thing to remember about bringing our own bottle. Last year, Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles. If we would fill up a reusable water bottle at home, much of this could be avoided. If our tap water is not good it usually only needs a filter. They are not very expensive. At least not as expensive as destroyed oceans, landfills, forests, rivers and agricultural land with plastic pollution. Besides, much of the bottled water sold today is filtered tap water anyway.

Fifty billion plastic bottles is not the Kingdom way, it’s another way.

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.” Jesus