So I'm struggling with a number of things lately. Mainly, how do I, as a young Christian woman growing up in an uncertain-climate-changing world live? I want to live more simply, pursue a higher education, enjoy my family, have a career that makes a difference -but without being a part of this all-consuming mind-numbing society!
The fact is that Joel & I cannot be in school right now without being on student loans (at $24 000 a year), but I don't want to spend the rest of my life paying them off. We want to buy land as soon as possible, and create a self-sustaining community, off the grid, where we can grow our own food, and raise our kids. We would love to have a number of families out there, so we can all combine skills, because it's all about synergy - the effect of the sum is greater than the individual parts.
I'm so sick of this rat race, of getting more and more, yet feeling emptier and emptier. And I am so scared of getting caught in it post graduation! On the other hand, I'm excited for my career, because getting into sustainable community designing is becoming more of a reality every week. The BC government is pushing a couple of initiatives that promote sustainable design, but most of them are focusing on alternate energy while keeping the status quo lifestyle. So I am torn. I don't think the only solution is finding alternate energy. We need to look at building up communities, creating a safe, loving, and healthy holistic environment.
My next struggle is that God doesn't want us destroying His Earth. We're suppose to be stewards of the Earth, yet all we do is consume it. Leaving nothing. Scientists predict there is around 40 years left of oil left. Millenniums of decomposition, all used in two centuries. Millenniums of carbon trapped within the Earth released to our atmosphere causing climate change. 73% of Vancouver Islands old-growth forests have been logged. Gone. Centuries of forests, of habitats for other flora and fauna gone. Species everyday going extinct.
You get the point. It's not responsible stewardship.
I am glad for all the attention Climate Change has been getting lately, but I think Climate Change is just a symptom for a much bigger syndrome. It's just one piece. Don't forget about lack of clean water (which is getting worse), malnourishment, monocultures in agriculture, a loss of biodiversity, corrupt governments....and what about people not knowing their neighbours, living in McMansions (aka big suburban homes), homelessness, drug & alcohol abuse, suicide... the list goes on.
Why do we have these problems? Simple. We forgot we're a part of the ecosystem. Humans are a mammal, just like any other. You take an animal out of the wild and they face all sorts of problems with eating, a lack of energy, and reproducing. There have been experiments done on mammals taken out of the wild, separated from their kin and they go crazy.
Humans are crazy now. We performed a giant experiment and created a world for ourselves separate from the natural world. The experiment has failed.
But then again, I guess it all failed when Eve ate that apple.
Aaaahhhh!! My head is spinning!!!!
I feel crazy.
Thanks for listening to my rant :)
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how very humble you make me feel. I know that there is so much more that I can do. Remember that we can do so much but God loves this planet more than we could ever imagine.
Hey hun, if it help remember that while God wants us all to do our part, he's the one who is God. We aren't all powerful and he doesn't expect us to be. He just wants us to do what we can. Just like you can't make someone else become love him, you can't save the world on your own. And it's not your job to.
i wanna live secludedly to i think that would be rad jsut middle of no where. wait would you guys have solar panals?
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