Day In The Sun: Family Picnic

It's tempting to view our current political atmosphere and the mishandling of the pandemic as consequences of poor leadership. But what we value as a society — personality, charm, and success by any means necessary — points to the real root of the problem: that preoccupation with the self has brought us to where we are today. Though we can blame and replace our leaders as a temporary fix, the parable of the house on the rock teaches us that it takes a new foundation of integrity to upend the paradigm of normalized selfishness. It may be difficult to live by a character ethic, but that is why we need God to love us through our journey of living with integrity, so that instead of selfishness and sin, we perpetuate wholeness and value.