Friday, February 6

Sermon on the LA freeway....

Via Rudy Carrasco comes Christy Lambert's musings regarding the Sermon on the Mount, here is some of it:

"I've been contemplating the contradictions inherent in trying to live simply in America - said the girl drinking a $3.25 chai latte while wearing thrift store jeans with a hole in the left knee. I have both a gift for acquiring free furniture and an expensive education that taught me to use the words "bifurcation", "social construction" and "metanarrative" in a sentence, which is the kind of thing that makes you a hit at parties. I get the $13 haircut at Supercuts, and when I smile, you can see the result of three years of pricey orthodontia. I have no television, but a whole lot of CD's. I wrote out this blog entry in a coffee shop with pen and paper because I needed to get out of my apartment, and I refuse to buy a laptop when I have a perfectly functional desktop in my bedroom. I have a guitar that I haven't touched in six months, but didn't give to a youth center that wants to provide music lesson for low-income kids because I might want to use the six chords that I know at some point in the future. I give money every month to several organizations, both Christian and not, that I think are doing good work and live within my means, so I have no debt. That's not the whole story though. While I had a fellowship that paid for grad school, I got through my undergraduate years at a private university on a combination of scholarships, jobs, and very generous family contributions, so I didn't have to take out any loans...."

Read the rest here>>>

posted by Charlie Wear | 6:39 PM | |