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What floats your boat?
Today is the 1st day of the 11th week, the 10th day of the 3rd month, the 69th day of 2019, and:
- Check Your Batteries Day
- Festival of Life in the Cracks Day
- Histotechnology Professionals Day
- International Bagpipe Day
- International Day of Awesomeness
- Landline Telephone Day
- Mario Day
- National Blueberry Popover Day
- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Pack Your Lunch Day
- Salvation Army Day
- The Start of Daylight Savings Time
- US Paper Money Day
Reflect: Which false idol—pleasure, power, honor, or wealth—tempts you the most? Why?
This was part of the sermon for the first Sunday of Lent, and for some reason it got me to thinking – what floats your boat? What is it that if you could wave a magic wand, or had Aladdin’s lamp, or caught that magic fish, or had the Devil himself offering you a bargain for your soul, would you go for?
Pleasure? Well, everyone likes their ease and likes to have things pleasant. But I think most folks are pretty much grounded despite our hedonistic tendencies and realize that unbridled pleasure exacts a toll. If it was Christmas every day, then Christmas wouldn’t be special anymore, now would it?
Power? This one I can honestly say never tempted me – I make a far better follower than a leader because while I like the affirmation the person on top gets, I really don’t enjoy the responsibility and hesitate to should the accountability of doing the right things for the right reasons
Honor? For a person with an insecuriority complex who isn’t good at fitting in or playing well with my contemporaries, this one is rather tempting. I have always cherished a secret ambition to be a writer, widely known and widely read, which implies respect and/or affection, I guess. With my luck? I would wish for honor and just get my 15 minutes of fame for something I said or did heedlessly. Or I would end up being gifted with something like the Klingon Code and have to walk around being all noble and upright. Hmmm, that might not be a bad thing….
Wealthis what you get when you win the lottery and I have often thought about and even written about what I would do with the money. Definitely could see myself wishing for it! But sell my soul for it? Granted I am a big of an agnostic and certainly have my doubts, but that doesn’t seem like a good bargain to me. Not saying I wouldn’t be tempted – who wouldn’t? I don’t think I’d go for that, but I think this one is my weak point for if I could make my friend’s and children’s lives better as well as my own…..
Of course I have completely ignored the implication that you shouldn’t be focused on any of these things because you are chasing after false idols and ignoring the consequences of your actions, but those are kinda a different reflection
Okay, what about you all?
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