PRACTICE IN SAVING THINGS

As I mentioned in yesterday’s Journal entry, ‘values are things we decide on.’ For example: It would be a good idea to pay closer attention to our trash and plastic waste… blah, blah, blah…

From a National Geographic article:
‘Imagine 15 grocery bags filled with plastic trash piled up on every single yard of shoreline in the world. That’s how much land-based plastic trash ended up in the world’s oceans in just one year. The world generates at least 3.5 million tons of plastic and other solid waste a day…. The U.S. is the king of trash, producing a world-leading 250 million tons a year—roughly 4.4 pounds of trash per person per day.’

It is also a good practice to try and save the oceans. But everyone knows that’s a good idea until we need to do something with our trash. It is only a value if I decide it is one for me. It is similar to the value placed on our souls and the souls of others is also a decision. We do something about it or we don’t.

P.J. O’Rourke (1947-2022) author and satirist once said: “Everyone wants to save the earth but nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes.”

Practice in Saving Things has to start with different thinking on many of our current trends for change to begin. We have to practice our practice of saving things.

“To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.” Jesus