Greetings Dear Reader,
I have recently been catching up on the series Alone. For those who do not know it, individuals are
dropped in a remote place with no food and a few necessities in order to survive
alone for as long as they can. There is
no camera crew, they record themselves, and a satellite phone is provided when
they choose to quit.
One of the aspects of this that captures my interest is the
ways in which the contestants must forage for food. They become true hunter/gatherers and often
go hungry. Hunger is one of the things
that pushes them to tap out. When they quit
due to hunger, they exchange their chance at half a million dollars for a hot
meal. I cannot say what I would do in
that situation. I can say that it is a good insight into how hunger drives us.
When I ponder the idea of being driven by hunger, I see how
often people are driven by the hunger for a cause as well. I see how the hunger for their offense over a
cause leads them to constantly forage for a fight about it. The truth is that when we go looking for a
fight, we usually find one rather easily.
In a world where being offended by things becomes a suture of our culture,
this is increasingly true.
It seems that so many of us are bound together by our
offenses instead of by things that will sustain us. Anger and offense may rally us around a
common cause but they never sustain.
They are hungers that must be constantly fed. Like a fire, fuel is ever demanded and
quickly consumed. Further, we become
accustomed to looking for offenses from others instead of seeking commonality
with them so that we can fuel our outrage.
This is not the path of peace or the way of love. This is not what yields kindness and grace. When love is the hunger that drives us, we
can choose not to be offended. We can
further choose to be lovingly unoffendable.
When we see Jesus become angry it is when righteousness and mercy are abused
at the expense of others. It is due to
those entrusted with the way of love and peace abusing it for their own
purposes. When we choose the way of
love, we can avoid most offenses. We can
become those who respond to every situation with love and compassion.
It is a world where we must forage for those of like mind
and heart. When we take up the hunger of
anger and offense, we condemn ourselves to always being hungry. When we follow Christ in love and peace, we
dine on the Bread of Life and Living Water.
That is a meal worth seeking every day in every situation Dear Reader.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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