2015-09-29

Creation Time - Day 3 - Trade and environmental care


Day 3 Trade and environmental care

But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought.” (2Sam 12,3)
Who has money, he is rich and he is in that „situation” when he can do everything – that’s the way we think today, and it seems, a lof of experience confirms that. What is surprising for us, that in the biblical parable the facts of shopping appears as a negative fact. „But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought”. The natural and maintain contact with the Creator would have been that, if the lamb will be born in the bay from an ewe. A disearned, but created economy would be the normal form. The money causes breakage and concern, and at the same time it could be the mean of good. It can express and broadcast the love and and serve a good extension. Because it really has a value-transmitter power! The environmental movements often draw attention to that our shopping habits not only the satisfaction of needs, but also it is something more: the affirmation of the system. Wondering what my shopping habits broadcast, what can express and propagandize? Are they the adherence of the created things, the nature and love?