All in all, I do a pretty good job of getting along in this world.
Sometimes, I think, too good.
One of my biggest fears in life is that I'll become too well-adjusted to living in the world and lose the ability to be adjusted to the Kingdom of God.
I'm especially fearful of this as it pertains to money and things. I read sections of the Scriptures like Acts 2:43-47 about the mutual sharing of the early Christian community, or Matthew 6:24 about serving two masters, and I wonder whether my "healthy adjustment" to the individualistic economic system of market capitalism has by default made me poorly adjusted to life in the Kingdom of God.

This morning, I had breakfast with a friend in Chelsea and we were having the same conversation about our fearfulness that our healthy adjustment to the world had made us numb to the call of God. When I left breakfast, to head to church, I happened by the Church of the Holy Apostles, where homeless men and women had already begun lining up around the fence outside for the daily lunch (Holy Apostles feeds 1000 people a day). I caught the eyes--and the smells--of people who are "poorly adjusted" to life in the market economy.
Repent. Will I do that? Or am I too well-adjusted for such nonsense?
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