Or should I say things haven’t really changed. We are strange creatures. For instance, we go house hunting, and we find the perfect house. The first thing we do is redecorate. We tear everything down and change it to our liking, and that perfect little house that we fell in love with is no more. And when we go to sell the house, the next people that buy it do exactly the same thing. That vicious cycle repeats itself over and over again.
Man is like the seasons. Maybe that is how man got this habit of changing everything. The Bible tells us that man is made in God’s image. God made the earth. And we look at nature. We look at beautiful nature. And beautiful winter. And beautiful spring. And beautiful summer, And beautiful autumn. These beautiful seasons die to be reborn. Each one of these seasons die to be reborn in beauty the next year. So maybe, our need to fix is not irrational. It is part of our makeup. It is part of the way God makes us. We are creative souls. God has blessed us with that gene.
My only prayer is. Let us use it constructively and not destructively. Can we imagine? What the world would be like if the trillions we spend on military equipment and the bombs that we drop each year killing each other were spent on redecorating our little houses? Redecorating these little houses for the people, the little people that we killed, who are lying in alleys hungry, freezing, poorly fed. Let us spend the trillions on eliminating poverty instead of on weapons; Feeding and clothing people. Educating people. Opening our eyes to our lack of care has done to them. That our governments] indifference and greed are doing. To its people.
The rich would still be rich. They just wouldn’t be very rich. The poor would still be poor. They just wouldn’t be very poor. But all would be educated. All would live in homes. All would be fed. All would be healthy. All would have the ability to improve themselves.
I never wanted to be a billionaire. All I wanted to do was teach. It took me 30 years of working and studying to be able to teach. And boy, did God reward me. To stand a bunch. To stand not in front of. But to stand among a group of eager high school students, and then among a group of eager college students, so that we could learn together. . . about life. My 20 years of hard toil was well worth it. And I hope I touched a few hardy souls. I know that I was rewarded. Because of the friendships that I made. And the love that I shared.
P.S. I Love You. And I pray you love others.
Love is God’s symphony, the perfect beauty!
Russell Kendall Carter, BA. MAT. Dlitt.
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