Was at Safeway a few weeks ago. It was dark and the parking lot at Safeway on Steilacoom Blvd is not very well lit. Came out of the store with the things Helen asked me to bring home when I noticed an SUV driving in with its tailgate up and lights out. They stopped by the pumpkins that were piled up outside and I heard a mom yelling at the kids to hurry and get out to get the pumpkins in the car. Three kids jumped out of the car and started putting the pumpkins into the back of the SUV and they sped off the parking lot. Not sure how many pumpkins they managed to steal.
As I saw the whole thing taking place, the first emotion I felt was anger. Why do people resort to stealing? What are they going to do with all those pumpkins anyway?
And then, the more I thought about the incident, I was just saddened by the whole thing.
- What kind of a mom brings their kids to steal pumpkins?
- What desperate situation must the family be facing that the mom would resort to doing something like that?
- What kind of a society have we become where brazen things happen?
We are a society that doesn’t know how to take care of one another. We are a society where values and morals do not matter. We are a society that desperately needs to turn to Jesus. We need to repent and we need to return to God.
Every great empire faced its end by moral corruption from the inside. Very few empires were destroyed by a foreign foe. As great as America is, the moral trajectory we are on mirrors the downfall of the great empires of the past.
More than ever, what our country needs is Jesus.
Praxis: Faith in Action 