and supports his wife, and his three kids? And not only that, the family lives in a roomy house. Oh, but that's not it: each Sunday, he puts a tithe into the offering plate. And every two weeks, an additional ten-some percent, goes into a savings account. After all, his job does carry risks. Just an average family.
How is this possible, for one man to provide an income, while his wife keeps a peaceful home, cares for the children, and at 5pm is draped in lovely panels?
Here's how. In a better world, where most people have enough brains to follow the Lord's way, men and women are spared the constant insanity of buying, and throwing away. The lightbulb in their kitchen came with the house - when it was new; the father had been a young boy when his grandfather had purchased the structure and surrounding acreage - with a cash down payment of about 80%. The man's grandparents now live upon the property's acreage, just across the road; the aging couple wanted a smaller place - one without stairs.
The man's truck came off the assembly line, around the time his father was yet a teen. Over the years repairs had been made - since things don't last forever. Makes a difference, when people have time to maintain their own stuff - instead of constantly running the rat race, which leads nowhere.
This is no pie-in-the-sky, but a quick snap shot of what life would be like, in a world, at least partially free of designed obsolescence - call that what it is : evil, plain and simple! In a world where landfill areas were, maybe, ten acres - not a hundred. In a world where sea life, doesn't end up choaking on plastic.
A world where the Lord's ways are followed - if, for no reason, God's ways simply make more sense (than man's vicious little punk-beech mindgames).
More later.
AMEN!
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