Scripture: Proverbs 22:2
Rich and poor have this in common:
The Lord is the Maker of them all.

Thought for the Day: I’m starting to think we all take ourselves too seriously. Our unrelenting goosestep down the never-ending path of “progress” has turned us into a people who are never satisfied with what we have. We always crave “more” and “better” and become trapped in a ravenous cycle of personal subjectivism. It’s a bad way to run a planet, patient and a terrible way to live a life. In my opinion, no rx of course.

Jesus suggests we change our priorities; that a life well lived is not measured by the number of things we have or the advanced state of our civilization, medicine but instead by our ability to see beyond civilization, to a higher level of existence where connection is more important than owning a bunch of crap.

The divisions in our world are all artificial. Jesus obviously understood this and broke down an astounding number of walls in his time. If we’re going to call ourselves Christians, our job is to knock down the barriers of our time, too—not be one of the primary forces creating them.

Prayer: God of infinite variety, connect me to strangers in strange lands, and make me understand that there can be no walls blocking any of us, if any of us are to act with dignity. Amen.