I Need More Composting!

     Sometimes I am selfish, self-centered and self-controlled. With all of that said, I see that my self is the block to walking completely in You Lord! 
     I try to pick up my cross and follow You Lord - but then I drop it and forget to pick it up again. Please forgive me for my shallow soil. Help me to grow deeper in You. I see I need more composting, I need to enrich my spiritual soil by throwing in more of my fleshly ways, more of what has been pruned from me into the compost pile....to decompose. Let the process of turning from self to You make my spiritual soil richer and stronger Father. 
     You are my heart's desire! I do choose to take up my cross and follow You.

Three Rants For the Price of One!

If you wanted to destroy a society, some good steps to take would be to separate the generations.....that is being done daily! We send our kids to school to be taught whatever somebody other than ourselves has decided is important (unless you are one of those involved parents and if you are then applause to you!) and even when we have them with us we stare at a cell phone to see what is important to someone other than our children! Watch anywhere you go, parents are committing child neglect out in public now, they take their children to the store, the restaurant, and sometimes even to the park, but do they speak to their children or teach them as they walk along? No, they stare at the screen of their phones! What can be so important that you neglect the child that you so desperately wanted in your life?! And on a side note, my granddaughter cannot read what I write because cursive is no longer important enough to be taught....but that also means this generation cannot read anything hand written prior to the typewriter, such as the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address.
     The second thing I would do as a step to destroy a society would be to allow many different customs to be recognized as equal to the customs of the current society. You know, like be tolerant of every other holiday around the world, and every religion that wants to enter our society. Yes, I know tolerance is encouraged currently and you cannot be politically correct unless you are "tolerant", however, our society was originally to be the "Melting Pot" of the world, that doesn't mean we all stand out separate, it means we all mix together. Not demanding that everyone change to please us, but that if we wanted in this country we would change to fit into it!
     And then I would separate people from their history. If a person has no history or set of traditions then they could be created into whatever society I wanted them to be! Wait that is being done also! We are now to forget the Civil War happened and that many people believed in the rights of the states to create their own laws and govern themselves.......
........do you think that we see these 3 things happening daily means anything?