Lamentation

Lately, I've been listening to others, interjecting my thoughts every so often while I explode inside at their words. 

People in Rwanda have been slaughtered by their neighbors and also by huge global corporations that hire out "contractors" to erase all dissent which includes the cries of the people hoping to obtain some mercy.  Here at home, if we ever hear of such things, we say, "We are America.  We care."  Then we leave the real caring up to the missionaries and fatalist pests who are constantly begging for support.

Corporations create needs where they never existed before and set up shop in the areas that have the least restrictions and where the people cannot defend themselves against their ominous presence.  What do the majority of Americans say about this? 
"We must have our stuff and we cannot cry about what happens to their resources." 
"If we want affordable stuff, they will work for less than living wages and they don't seem to care for their environment, so why should we?"
"Globalism is a good thing.  It means liberation." 
And so, we spread our message through our voracious appetite for stuff but we also spread pollution as we would butter our toast, mmm...smooth.

My deepest heartache to this date is the oldest I've lived with for nearly my entire life, save the first four years.  We were told to master this earth for our good purpose, to maintain it and care for it as a master would those in his service.  Since I was a child, I've seen the garbage others scatter for someone else to step over or pick up.  It was apparent to me that we are a throwaway kind of people which meant the responsibility for cleanup of the mess would fall on the shoulders of those who really cared. 

We are like termites, sneaking up on those dwelling in areas, the defenseless people who cannot see what is coming.  We displace them in the name of freedom.  We draw terrorism by our presence wherever we go, so better it is to draw it to these defenseless ones sitting atop some marketable resources.  We call this transfer of power "liberty."

Conversation after conversation with Americans who support the actions and conditions we now see has revealed to me what they mean when they say, "It doesn't matter to me because I won't be around to see any of it."  Nevermind that this is not true, that their actions will follow them beyond their grave.  The truth is, they don't see the need for changing our behavior; therefore, they should probably leave this earth as soon as possible.  They aren't helping by merely paying taxes because the costs far outweigh their contributions.  

People say they care, however, they don't feel it necessary to join others by insisting we use renewable energy sources and dump our need for natural gas and oil.  People say they care but refuse to see that corporate agenda is more important to governors and presidents than listening to things we the people petition for.  They use their veto power like the terrorists fly planes into towers or drive car-bombs into resorts. 
They don't care about us, yet we support them in the form of a mandate.

Where is righteousness?  God said, he won't contend with us forever, that he will take His spirit from us because we are merely flesh.  And when he said that, the floods came.

Water, the most important resource of this earth is in all life.  We sit back and allow administrations to destroy it and sell it back to us after all life-giving properties are gone.  We now get sick because of what we do to our environment, yet we blame political parties for "their" leaders and what "their" leaders have done.

Did it ever occur to you that we the people are to blame? Do we really believe that because the end of the world was predicted, that means we are to continue in these sins that we may live as paupers next to kings here on earth; or we are  to continue in these sins that grace may abound? 

You know who is going to inherit this earth someday?  Do you even care?  The meek of this earth shall inherit it.  Let me ask you all something.  What screwed up thing did the meek ever do to you?

One last thing.  I'm as guilty in the undoing of this world as the next person.  All my life it has bothered me, this marriage of oil and consumption.  Yet I drive a car and take hot showers.  I've been asking for renewable energy for as long as I can remember.  I was told, it would be too expensive and not work well.  Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland did it and export it safely plus it has little or no greenhouse emissions. It's renewable energy.  So, why aren't we doing it?   We have had 30 years to do so! 
Nevermind, I know perfectly well what that answer is and it leads straight to that one world order revolving around Globalism.

May God fortify the meek.  Take not your Holy Spirit from me.

Chelle Stockman