Day 8 - the start of my second week and my underpants book is messing with my brain.
Say I agree with all he's saying (thanks Kelsey for blogging back to me) and my underpants were made in a sweat shop by a 9 year old getting 10cents a day - should I stop buying them; should I start a petition to have them pay the kids a decent wage; should I start a petition to have them stop using kids to make them; should I stop wearing underpants!!
What do you do with the knowledge you gain?
Say I read 5 books a months - 60 books a year and I gain vast amount of new, knowledge - what do I do with it all?
Take the underpants issue. We help children in Kenya, Guatemala, Tijuana - are we really helping them? Kelsey Timmerman raises this question in his book - child labor is wrong, but with the money they make they keep a family so do we stop child labor and make more families go hungry or do we fight for better rights - which more often than not don't happen and the kid is out of a job .....what does justice look like that helps the child?
Intentional following Jesus action of Day 8 - cry out to God for wisdom.
I just don't have the answer and this book (along with other thougths and reading I'm doing) are causing me endless questions - but questions that in 2010 I must find an answer for. So my only deliberate action today "God, help me; give me wisdom that you promise in James 1; help me know the best course of action not only with my underpants but with When I Grow Up and our children's charity (www.whenigrowup-global.com)."
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