Big
city life is a marked contrast to the seemingly simple life I knew as a child.
Don't get the wrong idea. Stress and worries always were associated with
farming, but there were the exciting days. At harvest time in late summer and
fall, neighbors and family helped each other gather in crops.
These were the days before big combine machines
replaced those neighbors and friends. While the men worked in the fields, women
prepared lunch. I begged to stay home from school, but my dad insisted that I
go to school because there wasn't much I could do as a young child.
Although
these people were far from perfect, their values bonded them together. It isn't
that the big city lacks values, but in the confines of a fast-paced, hurried
life, values may become blurred. God’s word from Luke 10:27 helps to clarify where
values should be anchored. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
soul, strength, and mind; and love your neighbor as yourself.” Do these words identify
where your values begin and end?
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