I love my early morning walk!! Except on Thursdays. Thursday is Garbage Day. Depending on my time, I am either passing garbage containers full of stinky trash or empty containers that reek of the extracted contents. No matter what road I choose, it's going to be a stinky walk here and there.
This morning a quote from John Piper came to mind as I passed each container full of garbage. He was answering a question about using transgender bathrooms at Target (or wherever). The answer he gives is excellent, but the portion for my post is his last paragraph: "I think we should spend most of our creative energies on constructing in our minds and in our hearts and in our families great and beautiful and glorious alternative visions of reality than the ones we are being offered by the world. If we give most of our time to bemoaning and criticizing the world for acting like the world, our vision of God and his glorious future for his people will become smaller and smaller, and that could be a greater tragedy than the one we are living in."
Garbage day is a reality. It is what it is. I don't embrace garbage or hang with it or advocate it but it's here for the duration. I can boycott that day but I'm the looser because, well as I said, I love my walk. So I pass a couple of stinky containers every block. I still have the rest of the block and the blocks before me to walk, feel the vitality of exercise and look up at the blue sky rejoicing in all the blessings God has bestowed on me.
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