Sleeping Monkey Speaks

We have built our barns, and filled them

Without a single thought for the others. The parable of the greedy farmer: Luke 12:13-21. We have built our barns and filled them with all the crop we have grown - our wealth, our own little insurance for when life might get tougher in future, our own little fall-back for when ends might not meet quite so securely as they do now. But, have we given a thought for those people in the third world who struggle to make ends meet all day every day, 24/7, 52 weeks a year? Do we pause our times of hording and saving to give a single moment of our time to those who don’t have anything to horde or save? Thousands of people struggle every day, thousands of thousands, who have never seen anything like what we have, in their entire life, and probably won’t. Yet we gather possessions about us in a way that makes us seem like the dragon from JRR Tolkien; possesions which we wont ever use, moneys that we never have need for, which just get passed from generation to generation. So would it be such a radical idea to give some of our fail-safe fall-back insurance to those who need it far more than we do, and who need it now? Life isn’t all about money, it’s not all about what we *have*. It’s about how we live it, and what we do with the possesions we do have. We’re all guilty - as it says, all have fallen short of the glory of God. But does that matter? Of course it matters. But we have a way to redeem ourselves, and there is no way I am giving that up. Not for anything this earth can offer us. If you have to build barns, at least build them with wide welcoming doors. But do you know what’s better than barns? Build ships, planes, cars and vans to take what we have but don’t need to those who can put it to a much better use than we can.

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