What is on my mind after Youth Convention is the people I now cherish dearly, the memories that bring laughter to my soul, and the maturing process of becoming more Christ-like.
1. Our benevolence has become sexy in culture. Buying Tom's shoes for African children is becoming the end of benevolence. Direct interaction with immediate homelessness has become obsolete. When we begin to follow a cultural norm that sexualizes convoluted benevolence (buying altruistic paraphernalia that helps the impoverished via donation) , we marginalize the immediate society that we live in, causing a societal disconnect that ignores homelessness on our streets. We make benevolence an either or 1) buy Tom's shoes, dismissing what true benevolence is or 2) help our immediate society come out of poverty. Of course the first is being chosen because it is sexy in culture and more visually appealing when we wear a pair of shoes that shows off our benevolent spirit (the opposite of humility, the beginning of conceit).
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