What if…
These two words along with “why” lead to many thoughts.
Looking at the situation of many people in the world, I thought “what if we had not constructed a society and an economy that depends upon all of us buying more stuff?”
Read the economics news from almost any country in the world today. What do you see? Consumer spending is up or down and therefore the economy is up or down. And employment is up or down.
Media (except this blog which generates no income) depends upon advertising—advertising convincing us by any of the latest psychology findings about motivation—where companies tell us to buy more stuff.
What if we didn’t get caught up in that gerbil cage wheel of consumption? What if we had time, like ancient peoples did, to sit and think? To meditate on God? To engage in conversations? To play?
Maybe today you and I can get off the consumption merry-go-round which drives people to 60-hour work weeks and pause, breathe, become aware of people and places around us?
Faith Venture 
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