Damned lazy and don't do a thing for me

Those damned sparrows are at the bird feeder AGAIN. It's not like they couldn't go find some food elsewhere, maybe go dig for a worm or something.

Just like my freaking dogs. I feed em, give em water, and yet all they do is sleep, bark, and get into the trash that *I* have to pick up.

Oh sure, the birds are pretty to see and hear. And the dogs can be a lot of fun at times, but overall neither produce anything for me and they crap all over the place. Guess who gets to clean that mess up?

And yet all over this country we sell bird food, dog food, and cat food (not to mention fish food, etc) by the ton.

If we see an injured animal, many stop to help or call someone who can. I have nursed a few animals back to health myself in my life.

And yet, when it comes to helping our fellow humans we often time stop cold. We ask 'what do we get for it?'. We berate them and find fault in them - no matter their circumstances. We ask questions, we judge, we ridicule and hurt.

Scripture: Matthew 6:24-34 (Luke 12:24-27)

24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on.

Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith?

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"and yet your heavenly Father feeds them"...Are we not the "heavenly Father" here? We feed the birds of the field, but not each other.

We were given a great gift in this world, a mind that has allowed us to do a great many things no other species has ever been able to do.

And what have we done with it? Spent more on war and killing each other than feeding and caring for one another.

Before we ever ask 'Why does God allow suffering' maybe we should start with asking why we do.

I'm thinking Sunday dinner

:)

...but I just finished "netting" my cherry tree 'cause God was feedin' the birds all my cherries... :D

so I did same. However, if they'd help me with the weeding and composting, I might feel a bit more charitable :dilemma:

...ingrates... :D

Had to edit to add this link. I have to ask, was your post a rebuttal to the Hagee sermon here? If you haven't seen it, you might like to see how others at the opposite of your sentiment view charity to the less fortunate.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=127633&mesg_id=127633

Will check it out.

I love the sincerity of it. And have to agree with much of it as I have four lazy furrballs that I've been working with desperately to get them involved in housework. At least you dog folks have Cesar Millan. I have nothing!

creations of we humans.

The very existence of life as we know it and as it must exist in other ways on some of the several sextillion other planets is a true miracle whether by a supernatural being or the chance occurrences in nature.

Perhaps this statement was correct, "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart." (Genesis 6:6)

:toast: to a kindred spirit.

:hi:

:hi:

but even the poor sweet potato is nature's gift...and all it wants is a hug! :D

farm when I could look forward to a tater and homemade butter after a 1.5 hour ride home on a school bus.

I grew up not very far from where the movie "The Yearling" was filmed, released in 1946.

I've seen so many different types of beautiful plants and I cringe whenever I see a movie scene that shows their destruction just to film an action scene.

For years I worked in a supermarket...They put out barrels for donations to a food bank and the local SPCA. The SPCA barrel had to be emptied once a week or more. The food bank barrel usually contained more trash than it did food items. I could never figure why people cared more about stray animals than they did about fellow human beings.