CreatorWorship

(Maybe that should be Initiator2. Isn’t that how second movies are named?  But really this should be part one because it initiated part one which is really part two only I wrote it first. I’d better stop before I get something started.) …Anyway, leinadcaro and I were riding home in the truck one day when we passed a local strip mall.   Says he, “Rats, they took out the Radio Shack.  Now there isn’t one in Mo-town.” It set me to thinking.  Why would they take it out?  For that matter why had Radio Shack changed so much over the years.  Well, naturally to follow the buying trends, stay where the money is.  It seems that the company is dying out.  But why? It reminded me of a statement an aircraft instructor had made to me, “Farmers make the best missionary pilots and mechanics.” (Follow close. If you haven’t noticed this piece involves stream of consciousness content which could make one a little sea sick considering the current mind involved. Scary?)  You see the original Radio Shack was the electronics heaven, a tinker’s toybox.  If you wanted to make a radio or fix one or design a new electronic gadget Radio Shack had all the pieces and some of the tools and instructions.  As time went along the market shifted toward Radio Shack providing the electronics to plug and play.  Farmers have and always will survive on a big dose of initiative.  If they don’t get up at 5 AM and work until dusk it ain’t  goin’ to happen (remember, consciousness stream). So if the plane is down, the tools are few, and the time is short they will figure a way of getting it done and pull it off safely.  What we’ve lost is initiative. Few are willing to dig and try again and innovate and fail and rise up to try a new way.  And some who do do it on a plug and play level, throw away society that we are.  So we’ve traded “necessity is the mother of invention” for “laziness is the mother of invention”.  Only it’s not. Lack of initiative is killing our educational system, our economic system, and our legal system.  Stand up! Do something! No, not anything, something right and good and profitable. God help us. “The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth.” (Proverbs 19:24) I think I just had a rant. I best back it up with some initiative of my own at family, at work, at church.