I’m doing laundry again
today! Every week, it seems, I am right back where I started. It is a
never-ending cycle. We are in the 21st century. By now, George Jetson
had a machine that just created clothes each day for him, didn’t he?
Why isn’t technology working for me, like that????
You know, for the people of the third
world, our technology in the United States is a futuristic wish! I felt
so stupid when I spent a month in Cuba. A brought many clothes with
me, but I just assumed there would be a washing machine and dryer at
some point. My roommate from Bangladesh would wash one of this two
pairs of underwear in the sink each night and hang them up to dry so
that he could alternate.
During our second week I finally need
to clean my clothes (because I had more clothes on this trip than many
of these people had in the homes). We all went to the courtyard and
turned on running water that was completely red with rust and washed our
clothes. I had no soap because I had not even conceived of such a
thing as a “bar of laundry soap”. How stupid could I have been back
then?!?
So far as the third world goes,
running water for clothes washing is a luxury. How is it that I have
become so spoiled? I gripe about having to take my clothes to a
machine, dump in liquid soap and wait for it to finish cleaning my
clothes for me!!!
I see now, these amazing new washer
and dryer systems that cost thousands of dollars. How is it that we
have come to this? Is work really that revolting? Can we no longer
take care of ourselves?
Why is it that we can purchase new
computers, laundry machines, flat screen televisions, fancy new
cars...and yet we have a hard time putting money in the offering plate?
Have we really become so lazy and self-centered? I have been guilty of
this!
I think that God sometimes calls us to
make adjustments in our lives. I am now living at school with no
money. It is a weird feeling after several years in the work force, but
I find that I am content living in this dorm room. Every time I think
of something I want - I remind myself of the bigger picture of what I
need and what I wish to accomplish with my life.
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