I read a post by Matthew Johnson, and I realized I’d forgotten what to value.
In his post, Johnson notes fellow blogger Steve McCoy’s tweet:
Our van has been keyed again, that’s twice in 7-8 days or so. Someone is obviously mistaken as to what we value.
I wouldn’t react that way, I don’t think.
It’s interesting how our immediate reaction to things is revealing of what we really feel, what we really value.
What makes me angry, what doesn’t.
What I spend my time thinking and praying about, and what doesn’t even cross my mind.
What I worry and fret over, and what I happily meander through unthinking.
I think of election time, and the phrase “values voters” and how that is, oddly, both exactly and not at all right. Voting in values?
The things I value can’t be voted in. The things of value can’t be legislated.
I’d like to be a true value voter in daily life, and vote for the things of true value in what I think and do.
