Limping with my Lord: First World Problems

Friday, March 25, 2011

First World Problems

With at least 2 billion people on this planet living on less than $2 a day, most of my day-to-day problems fall under "first world problems".

In other words most of my "problems" aren't really problems in any scheme of reason...but are a result of a luxurious lifestyle made to my comfort and a product of mind numbing waste and excess.

Just about any problem I face every day is probably directly related to living my rich lifestyle.

It's shameful.

1 comment:

Unknown said...: but they are better than 2nd or 3rd world problems...at least you have something to eat, perhaps too much...; May 19, 2011 at 7:40 PM

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"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?