FAMILY FOCUS

Someone has observed that "Contemporary culture is plagued by the 'passion to possess'. The unreasoned boast abounds that the good life is found in 'accumulation', that 'more is better'. We often accept this notion without question, with the result that the lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality."

Too often, we seek our security and purpose from worldly sources: personal success, status, beauty, wealth and the approval of others. Unfortunately, the search for pleasure, the pursuit of wealth, or the enjoyment of some glittering novelty may give a passing thrill, but they do not permanently satisfy. They can't give an abiding zest to one's daily living.

We need to get off this hopeless treadmill, this pace of the modern world which accentuates our sense of being fractured and fragmented, this strained, hurried, breathless complexity of rushing to achieve and accumulate more and more. It frequently threatens to overwhelm us; it seems there is no escape from the 'rat race'.

Christian simplicty can rescue us from the 'rat race'. Jesus said "come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

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