who are we, and what is it that we are striving for? have we succumbed to what the world around us whispers?
i was thinking tonight about the situation that i'm in right now; and it hit me that i am living out my life. in a sense, it is mine to shape and steer; mine to enjoy and live out fully.
am i who i want to be? what are the things that i want to do with my life, that i let culture or the people around me alter? am i just doing what seems cool, because that's what everyone does, or am i doing things because i want to do them? what is motivating my investments of time and energy?
it seems like these days, people work at being uniquely alike. putting energy into being a part of a social scene, part of an activist group, part of a circle of common political views. personal interests are pushed aside; you have to be doing what everyone else is doing. it is to the point now that many people don't even know what they really want; deep down inside they have lost the passion for the things hoped for as children.
1 corinthians 12.12-17. God has made us unique and that includes the passions and interests as much as our physical or mental or spiritual attributes. we cannot try to assimilate to the crowds around us. it is what we enjoy and pursue that makes us who we are.
i was looking through car inventories this morning, (bored) and stumbled across this. It's Honda's new model, called the FCX Clarity. Running entirely on hydrogen fuel cells, it converts the hydrogen to electricity, which runs the engine. It is entirely environmentally friendly; it emits only water.
It's so new that Honda has only released two hundred of these on the market, and only in Santa Monica and Irvine, the only places that have hydrogen refueling stations. the way that refueling works is that hydrogen is sold in kilograms. a kilogram of hydrogen is right now priced at five dollars. So not too much different than a gallon of gas. The mileage that these cars get is much better than gas cars though.
The price of one of these cutting edge driving machines? A modest $2 million and it could be yours. Maybe time will tell, and everyone will be driving these. Until then, all I can do is hope.
i want to be leading. encouraging. to be pushing towards what i know to be truth. something that should come easy. if it's what i carry inside, it should come out easily. but it doesn't.
what do i do? do i abandon this, like a long project that seems to take more work than originally thought? no, that's not what i want. but i don't know how to break through and spark change. treading on this path with light feet and a hopeful heart; i want to see something change. movement towards what's best.
God give me wisdom. God i need you. BE in this situation
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