Rodent Regatta

We live in a time of such prosperity that even our downturns feel lavish compared to those who live without. The bad habits we’ve cultivated through the prosperous decades are now blights on us as people.

In too many ways and with too many people, there is a sense that one is somehow better than another. They may be better because of their job. They may be better because of their car. They may be better because of their over-bearing nature. Whatever delusion they have and use, they’ve determined that they are better than you and me.

These are the folk that don’t know how to forgive. They relegate others to some station in life based upon a perception only infrequently shaped by experience and reality. They look down on you when they think they are better than you. When you’re in trouble they simply look a bit further down and are thankful for the distance so that whatever stink might be on you at the moment doesn’t get on them.

It’s a sad way to live. It’s even sadder to see those of faith involved in it.