Yes, its true. Someone stole sand down in Cancun. You can check out the post at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_BEACH_CLOSURE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-07-31-07-04-58
I understand how vacationing in big business down in Mexico, and without the pristine sand beaches, then tourism would shrink. The world economy is hurting, and it has gotten down to people stealing sand. Yes, sand.
I am not one to spend my vacations on pure white beaches...my sparkling white skin does not really allow it, but I can understand the attraction. The ocean calls certain people, like a beacon people flock to the beach. What surprises me is how easily we get caught up in our business.
Imagine owning a hotel. You rely on people traveling from all over the world to come to your little paradise of a vacation spot and then all of a sudden a neighbor comes and sucks away the attraction to your business.
Many of us are getting the sand sucked out from underneath our feet. The economy is rough. No doubt. People are go so far as to steal sand to make sure their life work continues on...and many of us are wondering, when will this end?
I wonder though, how many of us are learning great lessons during this time? Money is not coming in for many folks the way it once did. What is that teaching us? Living in the United States, we are blessed. We are the richest country in the world and now that our economy is not as bright, many of our lives are not looking as glamorous. Going out to eat is not as plentiful. That new flat screen is just not possible now. Maybe we have lost our house. Or our car. Some of us have some real debt that is piling up.
Regardless of how you view the bailout, the war or any other of the hot topic issues in our life today, our world is looking a little different.
I would contend that what is really being challenged is our priorities. What is really important in our life? Is it our car? Is it our house? Is it our vacations? Is it sand? Is it God?
Our economy is asking us...what do we truly value?
Grace and Peace!
Micah
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IT IS SO GOD! And that's HIS sand! (What I write is not my word's, but from a daily devotional I read. This reading dated one day after Pastor Micah's blog. Aug. 1, 2009). "We seek to control our world and master our resources. God has to remind us that we can't. That's His job. Our role is dependence and trust. When our circumstances feel out of place, we are to go to Him. Rest in the knowledge that He will help you in His perfect timing." Luv.
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