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i’m tired of not doing anything
I’ve been brooding on these thoughts of late. This post by Josh Brown didn’t really help at all.
I’ve been listening to the Sustainable Faith conference, and I’ve been somewhat thinking through my life and the sustainability of it. don’t see too many ways in which I can currently make my life more sustainable, yet I know my life is considerably “unsustainable.” We currently own two cars, I drive a truck which has over a year left on the lease, Becky drives a more modest pontiac g5, obviously when my lease is up I’ll be “downgrading” to something more environmentally friendly. What can I do there to help? I want to get some sort of motorcycle to commute as much as possible on, but certain members of my family (read: Becky) aren’t quite down with that idea.
We live the lives of crazy college kids with very little set free time. We both work 40 hour weeks, we both have three classes a week, we are both involved in a college group at our church, we’re both involved in leading 4th and 5th grade kids every week for our church. I basically have two nights a week free, what do I with them? I spend them either watching tv, playing video games, or going somewhere with Becky. What can I do there? How does one go about just going into Atlanta and hanging out with the homeless? How does that look? How do you start that?
I’m with a church that cares very little for anyone but themselves. This fact was confirmed by a staff member a few months back. It’s a sad fact but it’s true. I’m involved with a college ministry that essentially tries to emulate a glorified college “service” that broke up about a year ago. They may not admit to that straight up, but it’s decently obvious to at least Becky and me. How do I help that change? I have absolutely zero credibility in the department of “social justice” right now, other than voicing my opinions on it. How do I convince a group to join me on journey that I haven’t even truly started? Someone within the groups hierarchy stated that they didn’t want to mention beforehand when we do do those rare “service projects” because they were worried that attendance wouldn’t be so good that night. With that kind of view, how is change ever going to happen?
For a second here I’d like to make mention that I’m not looking to proselytize the group into coming with me, I want to show them that, hey, this is what I think Jesus was talking about here.
Back on topic.
Becky and I have a severe addiction to eating out. We’re either eating in the college foodcourt, eating fast food, or going to a sit down restaurant basically every night of the week. We’ve tried buying food to cook at home but we run into two problems: 1. We spend just as much (if not more) money eating at home than we do eating out, and as somewhat cash strapped people this is an issue. 2. When we do buy food at times it goes to waste because we either don’t have time to cook, or forget that it we even had the food to begin with. Then there’s the problem of us actually buying food, of course we’d love to grow our own, but how can we with our 12×20 back yard and a spare room that’s not really big enough for any sort of hydroponics system (that I know of at least- I’ll admit I’m not very knowledgeable in the area.)
Like I said- I’m tired of not doing anything, but I don’t know where to start. It’s all well and good to “be part of the conversation” but in the end that does absolutely nothing. If we’re not doing anything that we haven’t really changed.
One of my favorite quotes is: “You don’t believe what you believe, you believe what you do.”
On a lighter note: here’s a fun page I came across today.
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A good place to serve in Atlanta might be Eagle’s Nest (http://www.eaglesnestministry.org). The pastors there are awesome and they do a lot with the homeless.