I am sitting this morning listening to some Christian rap, by accident. I started out with Isis by Bob Dylan - real good stuff, but then it advanced to my son's LaCrae album. And in a flash of completely unrelated musing I realized how deeply fragile we all are. Our culture does everything conceivable to deny this element of our being. From demanding conformity of body to denying spirituality to insisting that we are expendable and consumptive even to the most personal things we engage in, our sexuality. It is such an opposite of reality it is a difficult thing to think about. Why would it ever be considered that two of us (let alone all people) should be a certain size or shape? Why would people of vastly different capacities and talents be interested in the same areas? Who began affirming that we are disposable and interchangeable, and who looked at their children, their siblings, their parents and bought it? Why did we all buy into this nonsense?
When I look at individuals today, living the life that is socially set forth, I see a big group of people who are nearly totally emotionally steamrolled. Consumptive lifestyles, conformist thinking, and trash culture leave no room to become the person God created each to become. Our lives are being lived out as shadows of others lives, others faces, others bodies, others beings.
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